One of the standout episodes is "Spider Rose," an adaptation of a short story by sci-fi author Bruce Sterling that appeared in 1996's Schismatrix Plus. The short is set in the Sterling-created ...

Including baseball. Does anyone believe that Major League Baseball would be reinstating Pete Rose if one of the president’s whims had not demanded it? Never mind MLB’s lawyerly rationale that ...

Pete Rose owes his eternal gratitude to President Donald Trump, Commissioner Rob Manfred and the Baseball Hall of Fame for getting him into Cooperstown in 2028, assuming he’s rubber stamped by ...

Pete Rose and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson were reinstated by Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday, making both eligible for the sport's Hall of Fame after their careers were ...

Pete Rose is off Major League Baseball’s permanently ineligible list, and who knew that you could speed run to Cooperstown merely by kicking the bucket, no matter how felonious, how detrimental ...

In a landmark judgment, commissioner Rob Manfred removed MLB’s all-time hits leader, Pete Rose, deadball icon “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and 15 other deceased transgressors from the league’s ...

SEATTLE – As he mentioned again, Aaron Boone’s baseball family has a connection with Pete Rose and his family. Boone spoke by phone with Pete Rose Jr., Tuesday, following MLB Commissioner Rob ...

Banning someone from baseball’s Hall of Fame is not a sentence to the electric chair, much as the worshipers of the emerald chessboard like to frame it so. It’s not a guillotine. It’s not ...

Major League Baseball has reinstated Pete Rose, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, and a number of other former players who were previously banned from the game for life, potentially clearing the way for ...

The late Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hit leader, was reinstated by the league Tuesday in a move that makes him posthumously eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame over 35 years ...

Pete Rose has been posthumously reinstated by Major League Baseball, clearing the way for the all-time hits leader to be considered for the Hall of Fame. Rose, who passed away in September 2024 at ...

Efforts to get Pete Rose into Cooperstown took a step forward Tuesday. Rose, MLB's all-time hit king who was ousted for gambling, was removed from Major League Baseball's permanently ineligible ...