Erik Matuszewski, Bloomberg · March 16, 2015 at 1:23 pm
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(Bloomberg) — Pete Rose has requested that his lifetime ban from Major League Baseball be lifted and new commissioner Rob Manfred said he’ll take it under consideration.

Manfred, speaking to reporters at the Los Angeles Dodgers’ spring training camp, said he received a formal reinstatement request from Rose, the sport’s all-time leader with 4,256 hits.

Manfred, who in January succeeded Bud Selig as baseball’s 10th commissioner, said he’ll talk with Rose’s representatives about the request. Rose, 73, was suspended in 1989 by then- commissioner Bart Giamatti after an investigation found he bet on baseball, including on the Cincinnati Reds during the 1985-87 seasons while he was the team’s manager.

The ruling made Rose ineligible for the Hall of Fame.

After 15 years of denying that he bet on baseball, Rose said in his 2004 book, “My Prison Without Bars,” that he confessed to Selig while seeking to have the ban lifted. He’s had previous reinstatement requests denied.

Manfred has been open to changes since taking over as commissioner. He said last month that he’d consider shortening the 162-game regular season and that he can envision an expansion to include new teams in Canada and Mexico.

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