Should Pete Rose be allowed in the Baseball Hall of Fame?

Answer 1

Pete should be allowed in to the Hall. He has more than paid his pennance for what he did as a manager.

Answer 2

I think this question and those about Barry Bonds comprise 1/3 of the baseball questions asked here...

No, Pete Rose should not be allowed in the Hall of Fame.

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.

Answer 3

No, though it's really not an interesting question. The Hall refuses to consider anyone on MLB's permanently ineligible list, and Rose is on that list.

His ban is NOT "lifetime" -- it is "permanent". This is clear in the agreement he willingly signed in 1989. He will be worthy of reinstatement when permanent expires, or when he's innocent.

It matters not; Rose is living larger as Baseball's Wronged Man (which he isn't) than as just another plaque portrait in the Hall.

Rose did not make mistakes; he made bad decisions, repeatedly, and will full knowledge of the potential consequences.

Oh, he should be allowed in if he buys an admission ticket like the rest of us. No need to be THAT restrictive.

Answer 4

For all of you that are not aware.

Pete Rose signed and vowed as a manager of baseball that he would never bet on the game of baseball. Peter violated his written agreement and dishonored his vow to the game.

No man of this caliber deserves to be in the hall of fame period.

May I also add he has been banned from baseball and next year will be his last year for eligibility. I don't see the ban getting lifted at all. Sorry. He's not getting in.

Answer 5

My opinion is yes, he should be allowed in the Hall of Fame. I don't know why he would want to be, but I can see where he should be. His stats speak for themselves, so I am not going to jump in and tell you all the numbers, chances are you know them. Yes, he gambled...yes, he finally admitted it. Was it wrong? Yes. Should he have been punished? Yes, but a lifetime ban is a little extreme. Should Daryll Strawberry have been given so many chances? No, but he was. Gambling is an addiction, much like drugs, alcohol, etc. To me, steroids are a much bigger issue in baseball than what Pete Rose did...and you are given 3 chances to get finished with steroids before expulsion from the great game of baseball....so why didn't they tell him you are to stay away from baseball for 5 years and then we will think about it....

My answer to the question is YES, he should be allowed in the Hall of Fame. Like I said though, why would he want to? I don't remember who went to the Hall 3 years ago? Honestly, at this moment...I can't think of one of them. I probably could if I thought about it for a while...but my point is this: He gets more recognition (much like this question) by NOT being in the Hall than he would if he was in the Hall. Does that make sense? Every year, should Pete Rose go? Should he? What do you think? But if he were elected this year, no one would say anything about it next year...his legend would die....

Answer 6

Absolutely not. Right now, there is only one rule (there should be two -- steroid use would stop today if baseball had the courage to do the right thing and make their use the 2nd one to cause a player to be banned for life) that players cannot break and that is gambling. Every one of them knows it. Every one of them is reminded of it. Every one of them knows what will happen if caught. But Rose wasn't a player. He was a MANAGER!!! If anyone deserves the ban, it's him.
Now, that wording is interesting. "Banned for life". Whose life? Baseball's? Nah. The player's. So, 5 minutes after Pete Rose dies, put him in the hall. Joe Jackson should be there and, perhaps, Eddie Cicotte. No other banned players would pass muster. Put them in. Mark it in their inscriptions that they bet on baseball, but, gee, since they served their sentences, shouldn't they be evaluated for the hall? Sure.

Answer 7

What's the one rule everyone in baseball knows not to break? While Pete Rose is one of the all time greats, he knew what he was doing.

Answer 8

Yes! Pete Rose should be allowed in the Hall of Fame. His actions that got bannned from MLB occured when he was a manager NOT a player.

Answer 9

He's of Hall of Fame caliber, absolutely. Everyone deserves a second chance, totally; to be forgiven too. However, he continued to lie about it, even after it was proven fact. Over a decade later, when he writes a book, he finally admits to it and that seemed like a) I want to sell some books and/or b) maybe now if I admit it, they'll consider me. He didn't own up to it even after he was confronted with the evidence, and then every other time he was asked about it in the years since.

Answer 10

Absolutely not. His gambling destroyed the integrity of every Cincinnati Reds game he managed.

Every gambling addict knows he should stop and there are certain lines a gambler should never cross. Rose obliterated those lines.