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Started By: Major League Baseball Fans
Target: Allan "Bud" Selig - MLB
Deadline: 12/31/2012
Signatures: 71
Signature Goal: 100000
Pete Rose holds Major League Baseball's record for all time hits with 4,256. He is a no-doubt, first-ballot, Hall of Fame baseball player, yet he was banned from Major League Baseball due to gambling on the sport.
Known as Charlie Hustle to baseball fans, as well as those he was and is closest to, Pete Rose played the game of baseball like no other. To this day, his story inspires athletes who may not have been blessed with supreme talent, but possess a heart and desire to continuously increase their skill set and execution on the diamond.
Allan "Bud" Selig, current commissioner of Major League Baseball, has repeatedly stated that he will not reinstate Pete Rose into the league due to Rose's breaking the code of conduct by betting on baseball and lying about it. Rose has since admitted to his wrong doing, and is just as deserving to be accepted by the league as those athletes who have cheated by using performance enhancing substances.
The Petition
Dear Mr. Commissioner,
It is time to reinstate Pete Rose to the Major League Baseball family.
Considering the past 20 years of baseball history, as well as your role in what is now known as the steroid era, it is fair to state that several individuals and groups possess some blame in casting a shadow over America's great pastime.
As you have stated that your time as commissioner is coming to a close, I congratulate you on many decisions you have made, as well as stepped away from, to sustain the profitability and progression of the league; however, we, the undersigned, believe that your greatest offering to the game of baseball could be an act of forgiveness, and an acknowledgment to the hardest working man in baseball, Pete Rose.
Major League Baseball is nothing without its fans, and we fans have forgiven Mr. Rose for his poor judgment in the past. It is time to celebrate his great career, and allow him back into the league that is reliant on we, the fans. Considering the state of the league, such a story would cast a positive spotlight back on the game we all love.
Sincerely,
MLB Fans