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Pete Rose has petitioned the MLB for reinstatement after the players involved in the Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal went unpunished.
"There cannot be one set of rules for Mr. Rose and another for everyone else," his lawyers argued in the petition to commissioner Rob Manfred, per Don Van Natta Jr. of ESPN. "No objective standard or categorization of the rules violations committed by Mr. Rose can distinguish his violations from those that have incurred substantially less severe penalties from Major League Baseball."
Rose has been on the league's ineligible list since 1989 for betting on MLB games, banning him from the Hall of Fame.