MLB Upholds Lifetime Ban For Former Player Pete Rose

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December 17, 2015

Former Major League Baseball player and manager Pete Rose speaks during a news conference at Pete Rose Bar & Grill to respond to his lifetime ban from MLB for gambling being upheld on December 15, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Pete Rose isn't coming back to baseball. That word from Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, who upheld Rose's lifetime ban from the game on Monday. Rose, baseball's all-time leader in hits, was banned because he gambled during his playing and managing career.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks about that and other sports news of the week with our sports analyst Mike Pesca.

Guest

Mike Pesca, Here & Now‘s sports analyst. He hosts the daily podcast The Gist. He tweets @pescami.

This segment aired on December 17, 2015.