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Originally Posted by Mecca
Because he was a terrible individual who couldn't stop embarrassing himself. Since he's dead you don't have to actually deal with Pete Rose.
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Originally Posted by FloridaMan88
Take Ty Cobb out of the HOF if simply being a “terrible individual” was enough of a threshold to keep Rose’s ban in place.
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Yeah, the whole "he was a bad person" thing is just a stupid reason to keep Rose out. They kept him out because he gambled on the game, which at least made some kind of sense, until MLB got in bed with gambling then it didn't. It was politics, plain and simple. Enough people in power, that could affect such decision, didn't like Rose, so they blackballed him.