I hope Pete Rose is grateful.

Baseball's all-time home run king (without asterisks) and sports legend Hank Aaron is campaigning for disgraced hit leader Pete Rose to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Commissioner Bud Selig is listening and is now said to be considering making Rose eligible.

The tip-off that may have led Selig to consider pardoning Rose was Hank Aaron's seemingly impromptu interview session with a small group of reporters in the lobby of the Otesaga Hotel on Saturday.

In declaring for the first time that he would want an asterisk put on the achievements of any steroid cheats elected to the Hall of Fame, Aaron brought up Rose, who, in August of 1989, was given a lifetime ban for gambling on baseball, saying: "I would like to see Pete in. He belongs there." Source: MLB Commissioner Bud Selig mulling pardon for hit king Pete Rose, NY Daily News