Byline: Associated Press
Thirty-six names appear on this year's baseball Hall of Fame ballot, none of which is Pete Rose.
The list was mailed Friday to more than 400 voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, whose board of directors voted in February to make ineligible for the ballot any former players banned from the game.
Rose would have qualified for the ballot for the first time this year, meeting the requirement of five years' retirement as an active player. But he was barred indefinitely from the game for gambling in 1989.
Rose, who was manager of the Cincinnati Reds when he was banned from baseball, was …
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