... 230 hits and was named the National League MVP. Rose slumped in "74 but came back to be named World Series MVP with a .370 batting average, playing along side rookie Ken Griffey. In "78 he threatened Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak with 44 straight. On May 5, 1978 Rose became the youngest player to reach 3,000 hits. After that season he ... ...

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... be in the Hall of Fame. If you exclude him you would have to exclude many others whose behavior would not stand the test of our current moral standards," commented Ken Burns, producer of "Baseball Tonight." The fact of the matter is, induction into the Hall of Fame is not based on what a player does off the field, but rather what ... ...

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