Induct Pete Rose
Baseball is America's first and greatest sport that has ever been played. To be part of one of the thirty teams that get to play professional baseball, a player has to play the game extremely well. If a player plays the game better than most have played he gets rewarded, usually with lots of money in a big contract. Then there are those rare players; the 244 elite players of the game that have already been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Being inducted in The Hall of Fame is the utmost of baseball recognition. The players listed are remembered forever, which brings me to my argument. Pete Rose should be allowed induction into the Hall of Fame. Most of the baseball critics do not want Pete Rose inducted. They claim that his illegal betting on baseball games should keep him out of the Hall of Fame. Almost all of the highly questionable evidence that Commissioner at the time Bart Giamatti held was derived from former friends and associates of Rose. Some of Rose's close friends say that Rose bet up to $30,000 a day. These former friends of Rose are Tommy Gioiosa, Donald Stenger, Mike Fry, and Paul Janszen. This evidence is what prompted the investigation of the banishment of Pete Rose from b
aseball. The evidence was enough for the Commissioner. In 1989, baseball's Commissioner Bart Giammati suspended Pete Rose from association with professional baseball for life for gambling. Rose also spent five months in a minimum-security prison for tax evasion in 1990. He did not report the monies he accepted for signing baseballs and photographs at baseball card shows. If it were left up to his statistics, he should have been inducted years ago. There are a handful of the 244 elites that are in the Hall of Fame that did far worse things than gamble on the game of baseball or evade paying their taxes. For instance, Ty Cobb was a horrible racist and once admitted killing a man. One day while walking in Detroit, he stepped in freshly poured asphalt. When a construction worker, named Fred Collins, who just happened to be black, yelled at him, Cobb responded by beating Collins to the ground. Cobb was found guilty by the courts, and received a suspended sentence. Collins filed a civil suit, but settled out of court for $75. Ty Cobb had to deal with the law in one form or another many different times for striking black men. The powers that run the baseball organization seem to turn their eyes away from wife-beaters, and drug addict's everyday. They let known proven criminals continue to play the game, but not Rose. There is no absolute proof that Pete Rose did bet on baseball.
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