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Pete Rose
So, Bud Selig has “seriously consider lifting the suspension of Pete Rose to baseball,” according to the New York Daily News.
According to the report, some Hall of Famers were carried Selig reinstate Rose, who qualifies for the Hall. The report said that the declaration of Hank Aaron Rosa signals Selig chage of heart.
To be elected by their peers, the 65 members living in the Hall of Fame, and not everyone agrees with Aaron, [Joe] Morgan and [Frank] Robinson, Rosa took his time. It ‘hard to say if you leave 75% for the elections. “I know there are still those who feel strongly against them,” said a farmer in the room, and I do not know if this could change, even if Selig allows it. ”
Now, Selig is certainly not above the verification of the winds of public opinion before the veil. Earlier this month, in a session of Q & A with the Baseball Writers Association of America, said Selig was the case of the Rose “in question. I did spend time discussing, but it is not appropriate for me to say more. ”
I have two problems with the latest developments, whether it was true.
1. Why is the former players and teammates, including Hall of Famers, do much more weight? The players are very partial and often ignorant of the rules How many players have defended Barry Bonds and his admiration for him?
These guys are not considered what is good for baseball. They are trying to help a man who loves. Hall of Fame should not be just a great player, integrity, sportsmanship and character specific skills.
2nd Pete Rose bet on baseball. He bet on games in which it was successful.
Period.
Jeff Fletcher said last month, Article 21 provides that “Every player, referee or official of the club or the league or the employee, which is made of a sum that is in a baseball game in connection with which the Bettor has an obligation to do so shall be declared permanently ineligible. ”
This is not an obscure rule. Visible in every club in baseball. Pete Rose has seen all day.
Thus, Rose has insisted that did not betting in baseball, but according to “permanently ineligible” in accordance with the then-Commissioner Bart Giamatti, the right to request reinstatement.
This was in 1989. Then 15 years later, in an attempt to follow his case, Rosa has admitted in his book My Prison without Bars betting on games while managing the team of Rossi.
Case closed. Article 21 has been violated. Permanently unfit.
If the Hall of Fame actually Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame, then you should be lobbying the commission to reconsider its rule in 1991, which also changed the baseball ineligible ineligible for induction to the Hall of Fame.
