Pete Rose still isn't going into the Baseball Hall of Fame. While the career hits leader's banishment from baseball 35 years ago was often referred to as a lifetime ban, and his death this week led some to believe that would end,

The death of Pete Rose, baseball’s all-time hits leader, does not mean his banishment from Major League Baseball in 1989 over gambling accusations is automatically lifted or that he is now eligible for the Hall of Fame.

Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hit king and the Cincinnati Reds icon whose signature gritty hustle couldn’t outpace the gambling transgressions and obfuscation that kept him out of the National Baseball Hall of Fame,