Pete Rose died last September. A petition to reinstate him from his permanent ban from baseball was filed in January. Many people, most notably President Donald Trump, have said it's time to put him in the Hall of Fame. The petition may very well be successful.
It's not a surprising sequence of events, to the point that Rose himself reportedly called it 10 days before he died from heart disease. Speaking with sportscaster John Condit on Sept. 20, Rose said he expected his Hall of Fame chances to significantly increase once he was dead:
"I've come to the conclusion — I hope I'm wrong — that I'll make the Hall of Fame after I die,'' Rose said in the interview, which took place 10 days before his death.