Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred reinstated Pete Rose along with 16 other dead players last month in a move that he now admits was influenced by President Donald Trump, among others.  In February,

Commissioner Rob Manfred tells MLB owners Trump "was one of a number of voices" supporting his eventual decision to remove Rose from ineligible list.

Manfred said he "paid attention" to the advice Trump gave him on Rose, "but I had a lot of other people that were weighing in on the topic, as well.”