There are a few rules that must have been followed to be inducted to the Hall of Fame. The one that is keeping Rose away is rule five. Rule five states: Voting shall be based upon the player's record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributions to the team or teams on which the player played (Hemmer 85). This rule has been tested and beaten many times.

Many players have entered the Baseball Hall of Fame such as the very unllikeable Ty Cobb, the drinking Babe Ruth, the umpire abusin

Another friend of Pete Rose had also provided information to John Dowd; Ron Peters. Ron Peters claims that in 1987 Rose would sometimes bet up to $30,000 a day on various Major League baseball games. Peters was convicted of drug dealing and tax evasion (Hemmer 128).

In February of 1990 after refusing to speak about the investigation of Pete Rose to baseball officials, and six months after Rose's banishment, Tommy Gioiosa was on a Cincinnati talk show. On this show Gioiosa claimed that Rose did bet on baseball games. By this time the two men were no longer friends. The investigation of this is if Tommy Gioiosa is telling the truth or was he being revengeful (Scott 26). He might be paying Rose back for having taking advantage of him, because Gioiosa claims that Rose frequently borrowed money from him but never paid it back.

Pete Rose started playing professional baseball in 1960 in the minor leagues and by 1963 he reached the Major Leagues as a rookie second baseman with the National League's Cincinnati Reds. Rose won the National League's Rookie of the Year Award for 1963. He spent most of his 24 year career playing with the Reds, Rose also played with the Phillies and the Expos. In 1985 Rose broke one of the most "unbreakable" records of all time, by passing out Ty Cobb for the most career hits ever (US fans n.p.). Rose holds many records, some of which are: most games played, most at bats, and most singles by a major league baseball player. All of these statistics are definitely Hall of Fame worthy (Cosmic baseball n.p.).

Paul Janszen's and Ron Peter's testimony was said to be accurate by John Dowd. Dowd then informed the commissioner Bart Giamatti and showed him the report. This 225 page report plus 2000 pages of interviews and documents was released to the public in June of 1989. Pete Rose was then interviewed after this release of the report and was asked what he thought of everything. Rose responded, "I am guilty of one thing in this whole mess, and that's I was a horse*censored* selector of friends." He was also asked what he thought of the Dowd Report and he said it was a bunch of bull *censored* (Cosmic Baseball n.p.).

Pete Rose was associated with gamblers and drug dealers, money obsession is associated with this territory of people. It has been said if Pete Rose was a gambler, he had to have gambled on Major League baseball games. Even though he said he had never bet on baseball games many people do not believe him because he was a gambler and he is an unreliable source to this case. In the report that John Dowd wrote, most of his sources of information are from two convicted felons; Ron Peters and Paul Jenszen (Allen 195).

A former major league umpire Dave Pallone, on March 15, 1996 said, "I don't know whether he bet on baseball or not, but he certainly has paid for any mistakes he may have made. He has admitted he has a gambling problem and baseball has given numerous chances to men with alcohol and drug sickness and they should allow Pete Rose to come back." This is ironic because, Pete Rose was suspended f

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