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Originally Posted by gordon30307
He was a good player but I think he got in for hitting one of the most famous walk off homers ever. Pete Rose a great player but a complete failure as a human being. Hard to come up with one redeeming quality.
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I have talked to many Hall of Fame voters, and that was not the case at all. In fact, he was ignored for the longest time by the writers and eventually got in with a bare veterans committee vote. And it was because he was the best defensive second baseman any of those guys ever saw.