PITTSBURGH (AP) — The legends of pastoral fields. The detailed history and meticulous attention to continuity. The sight of kids playing ball. The hush that descends when you walk into the Hall ...

Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe and politics: Baseball and the real world collide more often than we think. This 1921 file photo shows Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, rear left, ...

FILE – Cincinnati Reds player-manager Pete Rose leaps onto home plate as he scores the winning run in the 10th inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants at Riverfront Stadium in ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The legends of pastoral fields. The detailed history and meticulous attention to continuity. The sight of kids playing ball. The hush that descends when you walk into the Hall ...

In a single moment, he changed the possible posthumous career trajectory of two preposterously talented ballplayers — Pete Rose and "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, one banned for decades for gambling on ...

Politics even figured in attempts during the early 20th century to figure out where baseball came from. ... In that vein, we’ll leave the final words to Pete Rose himself, ...

Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe and politics: Baseball and the real world collide more often than we think. TED ANTHONY. Thu, May 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM UTC. 7 min read.

In that vein, we’ll leave the final words to Pete Rose himself, from an interview in 2014 — a rejection of mythology from a ballplayer long enveloped in myth.