Pete Roses: A Legend or a Disgrace?
In peoples lives today sports play a more important role than most people think. Players are looked up to, idolized and respected. A professional athlete is not only just a player that gets paid big bucks to do their job but they are also often considered to be a model citizen. Their lives are often dissected by society and found to be a success or a failure. There acts on and off the field can determine how a player is remembered when they are no longer active in their respected game. However when a player does something that tarnishes the integrity of the game, his team and himself, that player can be banned. Such is so for baseball great Pete Rose. Rose was one of the leagues most colorful, hardest playing people you would ever find in the game of baseball but was banned from Major League Baseball for gambling on games that he played in and managed in during the 1970’s. Although Rose had a legendary career in Major League Baseball he should not be allowed to be inducted into the hall of fame or reinstated back into the game by Major League Baseball. Pete Rose was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 14th 1941. He grew up with three other siblings to Harry and Laverne Rose. He was alwa
ys dreaming he would one day be a Major League Baseball player due to his father’s encouragement to play sports. His father was a semiprofessional football player and was a major influence in Pete’s decision to participate in sports. While Pete was in high school he played baseball and football at his high school in Anderson Ferry, Ohio. Rose was an excellent high school baseball player and as soon as he graduated from high school signed a contract with the Cincinnati Reds. After he signed he was sent to play for the Reds minor league team in Geneva, New York. As his game progressed he climbed the latter of the Cincinnati organization while playing for farm teams in Tampa, Florida and Macon, Georgia. So this is where the case of Pete Rose vs. Major League Baseball stands, after four appeals and several thousands of dollars wasted in court, Rose is still not able to be a part of baseball. There are people who are pro Rose reinstatement and other people who feel that Rose should be banned for life. Pete Rose was a hard nosed, blue collar guy who gave one hundred and ten percent no matter the situation and that is what fans loved about him. If you look past the gambling you will find a player who is most deserving of a Hall of Fame spot in Cooperstown, New York. You will also find a coach that would have been very successful if he was allowed to stay in the league. In recent years Rose has been more and more vocal about wanting to return to the big leagues and returning to coaching. In 1990 Rose applied for reinstatement to Major League Baseball only to have current commissioner Bud Selig reject the application while saying “I don’t think there’s anything new or if there’s anything new that I would do to change what Bart Giamatti did”(Associated Press 1). Selig also did not allow Rose to attend a ceremony with 100 players that were on the all century ballot to be voted on by the fans of Major League Baseball. However, Selig did allow Rose to game two of the World Series where he received a standing ovation from the crowd after being voted to the all century team in 1999. Selig allowed Rose to attend due to the overwhelming amount of votes but him being on the all century team angered many people who disliked Rose for his actions in the late 1970’s. This is where the ruling has stayed ever since and years after the ban was placed into affect there has been a debate into whether or not Rose sho
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