Bart Giamatti’s decision to ban Pete Rose from the Baseball Hall of Fame was not a fair decision at all. Pete Rose was placed on Baseball’s ineligible list in 1989 when commissioner of baseball, Bart Giamatti concluded that Rose had bet on baseball games, including games involving his own team, the Cincinnati Reds. In an agreement made with Baseball, Rose accepted his banishment from the sport, although he never admitted to having gambled on baseball games.

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 for thirty days in 1998 when he shoved Dave Pallone during a game between the Reds and the Mets. Pallone still believes that Rose should be in the Hall of Fame.

When Pete Rose was placed on the ineligible list in 1989, the Hall of Fame rule number three said that any player on Baseball’s ineligible list should 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 off 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. Being inducted in the Hall of Fame is the utmost of baseball fame. The players listed are remembered forever. This leads to my argument. Pete Rose should be allowed induction into the Hall of Fame.

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. There was an investigation to find out if Tommy Gioiosa is telling the truth or if he was being revengeful. 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.

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. Gioiosa, Janszen, and Peters each were 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 revenge, because of the fact that Rose stopped associating with them.

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