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Originally Posted by NDblue
And he should be in the Baseball Hall-of-Fame. I don't care what he did off the field, his on-field accomplishments alone warrant him being in the HOF. His problems came when he was a coach/manager not as a player.
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As much as I do not care for Pete Rose, the person, I agree that his accomplishments on the field should have merited entrance into Cooperstown.
However, you need to remember the upstanding moral fiber of those who have a vote. Individuals who will embellish the negative in anyone's life if it means getting a lead story or a headline. People who will twist fact with fiction if it means a bonus check for the month.
When someone reminds them of what their work is doing to people, teams, leagues and the sport, those pilar-of-the-community correspondents insist they are "just doing my job".