simply put. should pete rose (because of his playing career) be inducted into the Hall of Fame, or should the issue of betting on baseball keep him out??????
2007-05-22 07:35:31 · 25 answers · asked by TheSandMan 5 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Rose should be in the Hall of Fame purely based on his baseball career as a player. He has the most hits of all time. He should not be left out of the Hall for something stupid he did. On the same note, I believe Shoeless Joe Jackson should be in the Hall because of his playing career.
2007-05-22 07:50:53 · answer #1 · answered by Ryan S 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Pete Rose was a great player, one of the best. No one will ever dispute this. He broke the rules. If you let Rose slide on the betting, what's going to be stopping anyone else from doing it? If players and managers can get away with betting on baseball than you're gonna have a way bigger problem with the integrity of the game than steroids. With steroids people are cheating to win. With betting people cheat to loose. Which is worse? If you let Pete Rose in than you gotta let Joe Jackson in, too. Look at his stats, they were amazing. But that doesn't make up in any way for what he did. What's with all the sympathy for Rose anyways? He knew what he was doing. And it's not like he needed the money.
2016-04-01 02:40:19 · answer #2 · answered by Yesennia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
As much as people would like to, you can't seperate what he did as a player from what he did as a manager. He was an employee of Major League Baseball during both phases of his career, just in different jobs. And he broke the sport's #1 cardinal rule: No Betting on Baseball. The rule isn't "No Betting on Baseball Unless You Bet for Your Team". It's "No Betting on Baseball". Period. Every baseball employee from the lowest minor leagues to the major leagues knows the rule. Pete Rose made a conscious choice to disregard it. Then he lied about it publicly for 14 years, not that that should influence anything. It's simply another example of his extremely poor judgement.
Look, Pete Rose was a great player. No one can deny that. But you don't give the world's best surgeon his profession's highest honor after he loses his license because of severe malpractice. And you don't honor a ballplayer with election to the Hall of Fame after he broke the mother of all rules.
For those who say there are other people in the HOF who weren't saints, that's absolutely true. But this isn't about drinking or partying or tax evasion or some other personal failing. It's specifically about betting on baseball while working in baseball. He knew the rules. He took the chance. He lost. It's sad, perhaps even pitiful, that he did things that are preventing his induction to the HOF. But he did them.
No one who ever saw him play will ever forget what he could do on a ballfield. The memory of Pete Rose as a player will live in the hearts of baseball fans for a very long time. The difference between him and the other greats is just that Pete Rose will not have a plaque in his honor sitting on a wall in a museum in Cooperstown.
2007-05-22 08:21:35 · answer #3 · answered by blueyeznj 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
how about maybe.
honestly baseball questions about hall of fames, and records bore me. baseball people get so in to that, I think because the games are so long and boring.
(notice no one goes on about how many points Jordan scored, or if some football player should be in the nfl hall of fame.) why do baseball fans do this?
b/c the games are so long that you can afford the time to have such drawn out discussions.
and before some person from Cincy starts saying that Pete should be in, remember Pete cheated. We know he cheated. and acted like a complete idiot later. Bonds hasn't done anything worse than Pete.
2007-05-22 09:21:39 · answer #4 · answered by fields r 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I know this really bothers a lot of Charlie Hustle fans out there but this is a closed issue.
MLB no longer considers banned Pete Rose to be an issue whatsoever let alone a candidate for the hall of fame.
2007-05-22 07:56:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
This issue is closed as far as baseball is concerned. Pete Rose is no longer an issue about going into the hall of fame.
2007-05-22 07:43:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
I though America was a place of "due practice." He made a mistake, eventually owned up to it, and he still must pay the price.
Babe Ruth was womenizing-Jim Crowe Law supporting-alcoholic, but he is still the poster child for baseball. Mickey Mantle is/was a Wife Beating Alcoholic in the Hall of Fame.
To think or believe every player in the Hall of Fame was "Mother Teresa" is ludacris. The Hall of Fame is reflective of what you did as a player and not a civilian.
The message being sent out, "You can make a mistake, but don't expect us to forgive you."
2007-05-22 07:53:57 · answer #7 · answered by BionicNahlege 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
JUST SAY NO!!!!!!!
No Pete Rose
No Barry Bonds
No Mark McGwire
These guys have shamed the great game of baseball and do not deserve to be honored.
2007-05-22 11:04:18 · answer #8 · answered by T EMMETT 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely, no question about it. He should be in the hall-of-fame if you just look at his playing career. Betting on baseball is another issue unrelated to his numbers on the field.
2007-05-22 07:40:09 · answer #9 · answered by Frizzer 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
In my opinion, Pete Rose is a Hall of Famer. He always played at the top of his game and gave 110%. The man could hit, run, field, and throw better than most players in history. He liked to gamble, so what. He never gambled on his own team to win or lose, therefore he never had reason to throw a game, unlike the Chicago Black Sox of 1929.
2007-05-22 07:44:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋