"Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Pete Rose removed from MLB ineligible list.

[Megatron96]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I had to look up the definition, and then my pour gasoline on my search engine and burn all evidence of the search. Is the rumor that he was a pederast or hebephile or ephebophile? It sounds like the classic p-word is not on the table here.

The story, as I recall, was that Rose dated a girl (purportedly 14? 15?) back in the '70s, when he was in his mid-30s. One girl, I think. Pete claimed that she was older than that (but doesn't seem to deny that she was a teenager). And i think at the time the age of consent in OH was 16.

another part of the story may be that the man who accused Rose of this was down on his luck at the time. Or, that's what i read/heard, I think. Felt like a possible money-grabbing scam at the time i read it.