CINCINNATI — More satisfying than hit No. 4,192? In some ways, it is for Pete Rose, who needed more time to get into the Cincinnati Reds’ Hall of Fame than it took to set baseball’s hits record.

Rose is being inducted into his hometown team’s hall and having his No. 14 officially retired over the weekend, 27 years after he was banned from baseball for betting on the Reds. His ban makes him ineligible for baseball’s Hall of Fame, but the team is honoring him with the permission of Commissioner Rob Manfred.

The Reds already honor him in displays at their hall and at various places in Great American Ball Park. Now, he’ll be included fully in the team’s gallery of greatest players.

“This will be the ultimate thing to happen to me so far in my baseball career,” Rose said on Friday. “I tell people you should put it on your bucket list to go to the Reds’ Hall of Fame, and I’m happy to be in there. It seems like everybody I played with is in there, so they might as well put me in there, too.”

The Reds have turned the Rose honors into a weekend gala. They reunited members of their 1976 Big Red Machine championship team on the field Friday night before a game against the San Diego Padres, the same team Rose got his record-setting hit against on Sept. 11, 1985. Rose was the last player introduced but didn’t speak to the crowd.

He’ll be formally added to the team’s Hall of Fame on Saturday and have his number retired on Sunday.

Last December, Manfred turned down Rose’s application for reinstatement to Major League Baseball. Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench said he lobbied for Rose, who finished with 4,256 career hits, to be added to the team’s HOF.

“It’s a long time coming,” Bench said. “Hopefully, it will motivate him maybe more, in better ways, and we can get this all behind us, after how many years? Too many.”