Rob Manfred defended his choice to reinstate Pete Rose, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and other deceased banned players.

Baseball's all-time hits leader, Pete Rose, was banned from baseball on a permanent basis by then-MLB commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti in 1989. Rose died last year, never inducted into the Hall of Fame despite racking up a record 4,

Commissioner Rob Manfred tells MLB owners Trump "was one of a number of voices" supporting his eventual decision to remove Rose from ineligible list.