
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, December 7, 1993                   TAG: 9312070060
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: COLUMBUS, OHIO                                LENGTH: Medium

ROSE WOULD LIKE REINSTATEMENT

Pete Rose wants to be reinstated in baseball, although he doesn't want to return to an active role in the sport because he has found too many other things to do.

"When I talk about getting reinstated, I'm not talking about getting back in the game," Rose said Sunday. "I have my priorities in order now.

"I want to watch my little girl grow up. I take her to gymnastics every Tuesday and Thursday. I take my son to school every morning at 7:10. I pick him up every day at 3 o'clock. Those are things I want to do, and I can't do these things if I'm in baseball."

Rose, baseball's all-time hit leader, lives in Florida with his wife, Carol, and children Tyler, 8, and Cara, 3.

Rose was suspended from baseball in 1989 by former baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti for gambling, but has denied that he bet on baseball games.

He served five months in a federal prison camp in Illinois and three months at a halfway house in Cincinnati and performed 1,000 hours of community service in 1991 and 1992 after pleading guilty to failing to report income for tax purposes.

The suspension prevents Rose from being on the Hall of Fame ballot. He probably will apply for reinstatement after a new commissioner is appointed.

"Who the commissioner is may have something to do with it," he said. "But for all I know, the next commissioner may not even have the power to consider it. We won't know that until they name him."

by CNB