Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker are both in the HOF and both bet on baseball. I think it’s really the statutory rape that should keep Pete Rose out of the Hall.
But it was still cheating. They all knew it. Many other sports had taken action years before 2005 and the general perception was that Performance Enhancing Drugs were wrong. That MLB didn't explicitly ban them is irrelevant to the fact that users were knowingly stealing others livelihoods
Oh I agree and if the writers keep them out so be it. At the same time, if they get in, whatever. The league got rid of its integrity decades ago, if it ever had any. It’s a business and the Hall is a museum.
There's probably some commentary about the decline of Society etc that would fit here. I guess the Baseball Hall of Fame isn't reserved for nice guys... But surely we can have the worst a-holes not get the same reverence as the rest?
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Baseball is a sport that doesn't make sense to people and I hope they continue this tradition.