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Old 02-02-2015, 06:09 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by chucksabr View Post
It can be fairly debated whether the Baseball Hall of Fame should even consider attributes such as character and integrity for inclusion while other sports, notably football, have no such requirement.
On the other hand, football* (and hockey and basketball) don't seem to have had same the kind of sordid history with gambling the way baseball did.

*North American-style football, that is. There have been issues with gambling/game-fixing in European football. Indeed, Declan Hill's book The Fix detailed the degree to which gambling has allegedly affected World Cup competitions.
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