Pete Rose believes that his time is coming, he just doesn’t know if he’ll be alive to see his bust in the Hall of Fame.
Major League Baseball’s all-time hits leader (4,256) will appear on “CBS Sunday Morning” on Sunday. Rose, who has been banned from baseball for 25 years, opened up and says he does believe that one day he will be enshrined in Cooperstown.
“I don’t know if I’m going to live to see it,” Rose tells CBS’ Lee Cowan. “Someone, at some period of time, will feel it in their heart to give me a second chance. I might be six feet under, but that’s what you have to live with.”
Three years after he retired as a player, Rose was accused of gambling on games he played in and managed for the Cincinnati Reds. He agreed to his permanent ban amid those allegations.
Rose is asked why he risked his legacy on betting on baseball.
“That’s a good question,” Rose said. “I can’t answer it. I wish I had an answer. I usually got an answer for everything. I just simply … the best way to say it is, I screwed up.”