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Originally Posted by Megatron96
This is basically how i look at it as well. The HoF is supposed to be about baseball's greatest players. I remember a great baseball writer once wrote "the HoF is about telling the story of the game, and the question that must be asked is "can you tell the story of the game without this player?" And if you can't, then they should be in the HoF.
It's not supposed to be political.
And, imo, the story of baseball can't be told without Shoeless Joe or Pete Rose. Regardless of what kind of people they were, they were among the greatest players of all time, and that's the criteria for induction, not whether they were good people or not.
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Absolutely. It’s like people are forgetting that more than one thing can be true. Pete Rose would be laughed out of a room, and rightfully so, if he was up for the “good person and stand up dude” HOF. But he absolutely should be in the baseball HOF for what he did, as a player.