Since the game’s early days, baseball mythology has been constructed — often deliberately — to set itself apart.

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."

Pete Rose's reinstatement by MLB surely clears a path for other players, like Barry Bonds, to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. But what if neither of them is enshrined?

Pete Rose Jr. described the news as long overdue. Major League Baseball removed his dad’s name from the permanently ineligible list on Tuesday — eight months after his death and nearly 36 years after the Cincinnati Reds legend received a lifetime ban from the game.

"Your reaction that he might finally get his due in Cooperstown." "You want me to go there?" Brennaman asked.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.

The Reds are handing out a replica No. 14 Rose jersey to fans in attendance for their game against the White Sox.

Baseball history entered a new chapter this week. Baseball’s late controversial all-time hit king Pete Rose has been taken off the permanently ineligible list. We speak with longtime ESPN announcer and anchor Karl Ravech about what it means for Cooperstown.

"Absolutely pathetic they waited for Pete Rose to pass away before giving him his day in the sun," Gary Sheffield Jr. tweeted. "Reprehensible."