One day after Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred denied Pete Rose's request for reinstatement, the sport's all-time hits leader held a press conference Tuesday to discuss what happened.
The tone of the press conference was unusual, with Rose and his attorney seemingly trying to make a plea for the Baseball Writers' Association of America to get him on the Hall of Fame ballot, per ESPN.com's Buster Olney.
It's important to note that Rose being banned from MLB doesn't make him ineligible for the Hall of Fame. That is a separate entity with the writers voting in 1991 to keep his name off of the ballot.