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Now my understanding is baseball writers don't vote on people for the cumulative careers to go into the HoF. Players are voted on as players, writers as writers, execs as execs and managers as managers. With that understanding, I think a pretty a decent, though not foolproof argument can be made that Pete Rose the player should be in the Hall of Fame while Pete Rose the manager (never really a contender for it anyway) should not. I say not foolproof because he was a player-manager for the very end of his career.
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"The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man"
- William Graham Sumner
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