Timeline: Pete Rose remains banned for life from baseball
After Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred upheld Pete Rose's lifetime ban from the sport Monday, here is a look back on the events leading up to the awaited decision on the former Cincinnati Reds player and manager.
February 1989: Rose is questioned by departing commissioner Peter Ueberroth regarding reports the sport's all-time hits leader bet on baseball during his managerial career with the Reds from 1984-89.
April 1989: Sports Illustrated provides the first detailed report of the allegations against Rose.
May 1989: The Dowd Report, a 225-page document by American lawyer and investigator John M. Dowd, is handed to new MLB commissioner Bart Giamatti, with solid evidence Rose bet on multiple games as a manager, including Reds games.
August 1989: Rose accepts a permanent ban from baseball while managing the Reds. He is replaced by Tommy Helms.
July 1990: Rose is fined $50,000 and sentenced to five months in prison for filing false income tax returns by not including income received from selling signed memorabilia and betting on horse racing.
February 1991: The Baseball Writers' Association of America formally votes against allowing anyone on the sport's permanently ineligible list from being inducted into the Hall of Fame.
September 1998: After failing in a reinstatement bid with former commissioner Fay Vincent in 1992, another application by Rose again falls on deaf ears as his ban is upheld by commissioner Bud Selig.
October 1999: Rose is allowed to participate in a ceremony for MLB's All-Century Team before Game 2 of the 1999 World Series between the New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves at Turner Field. The Atlanta crowd gives the former outfielder a raucous ovation.
March 2000: Selig admits he is considering Rose's application for reinstatement, but never rules on the request.
January 2004: Rose publicly admits in his autobiography, "My Prison Without Bars," that he bet on Reds games as both a manager and player for the club.
July 2009: Selig dismisses rumors stating he is considering lifting Rose's lifetime ban.
March 2015: Rose again applies for reinstatement, this time with new MLB head executive Rob Manfred.
September 2015: After meeting with Rose, Manfred says a decision on Rose's lifetime ban will come before the end of the calendar year.
December 2015: Commissioner Manfred upholds Rose's permanent ban after discovering he continues to gamble on baseball and other sports, calling it an "unacceptable risk" to reverse his expulsion.