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Originally Posted by CommishJoe
I'm sorry, but I don't understand the logic behind this statement. The rule clearly states:
(2) Any player, umpire, or Club or League official or employee, who shall bet any sum whatsoever upon any baseball game in connection with which the bettor has a duty to perform, shall be declared permanently ineligible.
After thinking about this more, you could be right. Since Rose chose to bet on games he was managing, he willfully violated rule #2 making himself ineligible for the HoF. So, I suppose "people" did keep him out, but it wasn't really people, it was person ... himself. You can try to point fingers at whoever else you want, but if he didn't choose to bet on his team in clear violation of rules with a clear penalty, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Pete Rose is directly responsible for keeping Pete Rose out of the HoF.
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I think you're missing the point. No one is pointing fingers elsewhere, we are saying that the in in infamous is just a prefix and that the HoF is not a hall of statistics. The Hall of Fame should tell the story of famous players who played Baseball, including the cheats, the wife beaters, the racists and the idiots. Nothing bad can ever come from telling the truth.
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