How Donald Trump was key to getting controversial baseball legend's lifetime ban overturned

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Donald Trump has seemingly emerged as an influential figure in baseball after MLB commissioner Rob Manfred admitted the president had his ear when it came to the reinstatement of Pete Rose. The late baseball legend became Hall of Fame eligible last month when the commissioner altered the policy, consequently lifting the lifetime ban handed down to the 17-time All-Star by then-commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti in 1989. The decision came just two months after Trump hit out at MLB, claiming the league needed to 'get off its fat, lazy ass, and elect' Rose posthumously to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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