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

No one is sure if it is Pete Rose's goal in life to be in the Hall of Fame. It might be hard but it is possible that Rose can be taken off the ineligible list. If he really wants to be in the Hall fame, he has the chance (Reston 304).

When Pete Rose was place on the ineligible list in 1989, the Hall of Fame rule number three said that any player on Baseball's ineligible list shall not be eligible for the Hall of Fame. According to the current version of Baseball's rules, Rose can be eligible for the Hall of Fame by getting of the banishment list. No one in the history of Major League Baseball has been able to get off the list. Pete Rose can petition Baseball's powers to get off the list. Once he is off the list, he can be considered for the Hall of Fame (Reston 303).

Pete Rose met Tommy Gioiosa in Florida in 1978. The two of these men became good friends. Gioiosa moved to Cincinnati and lived with Rose and his family that year. Tommy Gioiosa introduced Rose to the group of bodybuilders at the local Cincinnati gym. Among this group was the gym's owner Mike Fry, and a bodybuilder Donald Stenger. Donald Stenger was a big supporter of steroids. Tommy Gioiosa really bulked himself up with steroids that he got from Stenger (Reston 58). When Rose was asked about gambling, the only name that was said was Tommy Gioiosa. Gioiosa would be the one to know what really happened (McCarver 42).

Gioiosa, Janszen, and Peters each was convicted of felonies. They were all involved in illegal gambling, drug dealing (cocaine and steroids), and income tax evasion. Pete Rose knew what kind of men these three were and broke away from them. It is possible that these three men could have turned Rose in for some kind of pay back, because of the fact that Rose stopped associating with them (Allen 160). How reliable are these men and their information about Rose?

It is a fact that Pete Rose is a gambler. He admits that he gambled. On November 8, 1989, he went on the Donahue TV talk show and told the world that he was a compulsive gambler and that he was now getting professional help. Rose denied that he ever bet on baseball games. When Rose was asked by the audience, if he is a big gambler how can he not gamble on baseball games. He did not answer the question (Cook 218).

Pete Rose denies that he ever bet on Major League baseball games. The commissioner of baseball, Bart Giamatti, did not believe Rose at all. There is not any kind of proof that directly led to Rose gambling. There is evidence that does lead to Rose gambling on games, even ones involving the Cincinnati Reds (Reston 32). This evidence came from three men who are former friends of Pete Rose. Tommy Gioiosa, Paul Janszen and Ron Peters were a group of bodybuilders in a local gym in Cincinnati. All three of them used steroids to make themselves physically big (Allen 158).

Former United States President Jimmy Carter published an article on October 30, 1995. It was about Pete Rose's scandal and forgiving him. Carter wrote, "I find the testimony (mostly from convicted felons) abo

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