You sound like a child who not fully realizing the ramifications of their behavior will cry out “Let Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame already”. Come on, Please. What sort of rationale is that? Baseball is first and foremost about integrity and while for the most part Baseball and all the other professional sports leagues hardly instill the sense of morality into the sport, being moral in any consistent way. Nut I’m talking about the most important aspect of baseball is not the hits, RBI’s and the entire slew of statistics as the life blood of any professional sport. Integrity, morality, sportsman like conduct must accompany, be a a part of a player’s persona if he ever wants to be considered among the best. You can not separate being a sportsman without sportsmanlike persona, which means play ball, work hard, and treat the game with the greatest reverence in the world. If someone impugns baseball, does things that dilutes the physical prowess and accomplishment that is the lifeblood of the gsme, the in which the physical prowess is the entire point of being a player but done so with dignity, pride and in anir of professional conduct. Pete Rose may be one of baseball’s greatest players from a physical standpoint but not from a moral one. To be enshrined into Baseball’s Hall of Fame requires both professional behavioor as well as proper civilized behavior.
What crap. We have a President Clinton who lied under oath and had to pay a hefty 750K fine, lost his law license, and is said to have raped Juanita Broderick.
Our present POTUS lied to us straight to our face, and his whole past is sealed from scrutiny.
You have priests and other clergy who molested kids, stole money, and have been racist hustlers.
Guys like Stienbrenner had legal problems with running the companies that made them rich enough to buy into baseball franchises.
Then there are the players who on virtually every team took drugs of one type or another.
Judge lest not ye be judged
Pete was a ball player, let God judge him as a man!!!!
Pete has been out of baseball longer than some present players have been alive.
In all honesty, some people get a shorter sentence for murder. Let bygones be bygones, enough is enough.
Pete go and be inducted the couch potatoes are just jealous that all they can do is drink beer.