Pete Rose To Go Into Reds Hall Of Fame Very Soon

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(02-01-2016, 02:31 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: I get the lifetime ban from baseball, but the HOF is a different story. Pete should be in for what he accomplished on the field. The objective of the game is to hit the ball, so until the all-time hit king is in, the HOF is a joke.

Really what it comes down to is that he broke THE cardinal rule and then spent so many years lying about.  Just think if he admitted it right off the bat.  It might have turned out very differently.  A big part of his crime was arrogance.

Baseball invoked the character clause, kind of a joke in itself, considering some of the low character guys in the Hall.

He seemed to suffered from the what killed Elvis syndrome, the nobody can convince me I'm ever wrong syndrome.

And yes, it did turn into a vendetta.