Pete Rose has been on MLB's permanently ineligible list since 1989. If the ban is lifted, he would be eligible for election to the Hall of Fame.

There are countless celebrated figures throughout the history of Major League Baseball, but perhaps none is more polarizing than Cincinnati Reds legend Pete Rose, who is on the permanently ineligible list.

Pete Rose is all over the Hall of Fame. Baseball isn’t hiding his accomplishments. His hits record and his World Series wins with the Reds and the Phillies aren’t hard to find walking around the museum. Baseball isn’t denying his existence. He’s just not enshrined in the Hall of Fame. That’s how it should be.