Reds to honour Pete Rose
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Mike Schmidt: "There's a cloud.. ... I think if you posed the question to all the living Hall of Famers right now, I think it would almost be 50-50."
Marty Brennaman: "(Pete Rose) dies and dammit, five months later they elect to make him eligible again. I've got a real problem with that."
The Cincinnati Reds have planned several events for Wednesday's game at Great American Ballpark, known as Pete Rose Night.
Pete Rose was celebrated by the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday night, a day after baseball's career hits leader was posthumously removed from Major League Baseball's permanent ineligibility list.
"Absolutely pathetic they waited for Pete Rose to pass away before giving him his day in the sun," Gary Sheffield Jr. tweeted. "Reprehensible."
The Cincinnati Reds host the Chicago White Sox in the second game of a 3-game set on Pete Rose Night Wednesday at Great American Ball Park.
Reds icon Pete Rose and White Sox pariah 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson are finally eligible to make the Baseball Hall of Fame after they were posthumously reinstated.