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Baseball

Don Hunsberger

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4. It won't happen

Reply to theHandpuppet (Original post)

Mon Aug 26, 2013, 10:04 AM

Aug 2013

Pete Rose deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. His credentials are impeccable: he has more hits than anyone who ever played the game. Baseball's problem (or really that of the Baseball Writers of America) is not so much that Rose bet on baseball, but that he never, until recently, admitted it.
He never bet against his own team, so the only person harmed by Rose's betting was .... Rose.

But the BBWA have the only votes about who gains entry into Cooperstown. And for some reason, they refuse Rose.
My guess is that, while he lives, Rose will never gain admittance.

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Is it time to lift Pete Rose's lifetime ban? [View all] theHandpuppet Aug 2013 OP

Never, and we should some more lifetime bans. n/t JayhawkSD Aug 2013 #1

he bet on baseball when he was a manager Bully Taw Aug 2013 #2

That's the tragedy of it all. If he did this solely as a PLAYER. . . DinahMoeHum Aug 2013 #3

It won't happen Don Hunsberger Aug 2013 #4

You can still hurt the game betting on your own team. Zavulon Sep 2013 #5

I think that could arguably be the strongest argument Divine Discontent Sep 2013 #7

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