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Pete Rose

            The road to becoming a Major League Baseball player is probably the hardest journey of any of the major sports in America. It is not uncommon to hear of football players being drafted into the National Football League after playing only two or three years of Collegiate level football, or a basketball player playing in the National Basketball Association straight out of high school. Often golfers or tennis players begin playing at a professional level between the ages of fourteen to seventeen. Conversely, becoming a professional baseball player requires such immense refinement and practice that it may take over ten years of amateur competition before one is even considered for recruitment. An aspiring baseball player must compete and excel at both the high school and college level before he is eligible to play in a three tier amateur division of Major League Baseball called the Minor League. After performing well enough in each level to be promoted to the highest level of the Minor League, then he may be chosen to be donned a member of Major League Baseball.
             After taking into account all of these obstacles, it is obvious why being elected to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame is such a distinguished honor. The Hall of Fame was opened in 1939 and the first twenty-five members were inducted on June 12 of that year. Since then two hundred and fifty-six people have been inducted including players, executives, managers and umpires (www.baseballhalloffame.org). Men have dedicated their whole lives to the sport of baseball ultimately to achieve membership in this illustrious club. .
             Pete Rose is one of the men who have whole-heartedly devoted themselves to the game they love. Unfortunately, he may never be rewarded with the honor of being a member of the Hall of Fame. Peter Edward Rose started out like many other young men with aspirations of being a professional baseball player.


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1. Pete Rose

... people think that he should be in the Hall of Fame while some don't. In 1989 the commissioner of baseball, A. Bartlett Giamatti (Bart Giamatti), placed Pete Rose on the ineligible list for gambling on baseball games, including his own team. As a result he was banned from baseball and ineligible for induction into the ... a horseshit selector of friends." He was also asked what he thought of the Dowd Report and he said it was a bunch of bullshit. It is a fact that Pete Rose is a gambler. He admits that he gambled. On November 8, 1989, he went on the Donahue talk show and told the world t...

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2. Pete Rose Scandal - Arguments to why he should be in HOF

... field and 595 in right field. These are astronomical numbers compared to others that have played the game over time. Pete Rose is in a class all by himself. In addition, Pete Rose also played professional baseball for more consecutive years than anyone else ever has. He played for a whopping 24 straight years ... succeed from the Union and we also forgive the Cincinnati Bengals for being atrocious every year. In fact the last time they had a winning season, Pete Rose was still eligible for the Hall of Fame. I mean, c"mon now, If O.J. can kill two people and get away with it, why can ......

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3. Banishment: A Thorn In Rose's Side

... on which the player played."" (Rules for Election 2) To be honest, integrity and character considerations count for less than record and playing ability. The Pete Rose Controversy speaks directly to Baseball's difficulty and hypocrisy with regard to "character" and "integrity" issues. As Joe Posanski, a reporter for The Cincinnati Post ... Hall of Fame. (Posanski) Baseball should be honest with itself and delete the character and integrity requirements of Rule 5. A growing consensus suggests that Pete Rose deserves to be in the Hall of Fame because of his baseball record, not because of...

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4. Pete Roses: A Legend or a Disgrace?

... 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 ... of people believe that he had a legendary career but destroyed everything about it by his gambling on games he participated in. A lot of people looked up to Pete Rose for being a hard working player and a great one also, but he was also a role model to every baseball fan in th...

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5. Pete Rose

... Hall of Fame because he bet on a few baseball games? The hits leader in major league baseball is banned from baseball, does that make any sense? Pete Rose deserves to be in the baseball hall of fame because of his actions on the field, not off. To not have the all time hits leader not ... appreciation for the game, and for all that he could do for baseball if reinstated. Pete Rose was one of the all time greats in baseball even though he does not get recognized for anything that he does. Rose the 1975 Sportsmen of the Year is banned from baseball because of his alleged gambling on baseb...

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6. Why Isn't There A Rose In The Hall Of Fame?

... the balance. For those who are not baseball fans, and haven't a clue as to what I am taking about let me try and some it up. Ten years ago baseball great Pete Rose was given a lifetime ban from the game for allegedly betting on games involving the team he was coaching at the time the Cincinnatti Reds, the very same team played for ... been successful, and his cause for reinstatement is slowly becoming America's cause. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter submitted an article to a magazine on the Rose controversy stating, "Every man deserves an opportunity for redemption, It's time to forg...

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7. Pete rose

... indomitable spirit that carried him to greater heights than anybody would have imagined a 140-pound high school kid with limited talent could reach. Pete Rose is incontrovertibly one of the greatest players in baseball's history. Anybody with any knowledge of his playing career would agree that it was Hall ... his or her game. It is too easy to purposely make one critical mistake and throw the game away for the sake of a bet. Pete Rose has a gambling problem. He says that he does not have a problem; he just does not want to stop. Why though, would someone ... is considered a pathologi...

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8. Pete Roses' Hall Of Fame Controversy (Persuasive Essay)

... Baseball Hall of Fame? To be placed in the Hall of Fame, one must perform with perfection on the field, as did Pete Rose in his glorious career in the Major League. Rose is loved by many and it showed in October of 1999 at the World Series when his ovation by the crowd topped the applause ... weekend and pull a couple of handles, do they? The answer is no. Gambling is exciting and excitement is what people live for, so why punish Pete Rose for having fun when the rest of the country can gallivant around and waste money at casinos across the country? People need to stop trying to find rea...

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9. Pete Rose Should Be in the Hall of Fame

... gambling Leo Durocher, are just a few of the distinguished baseball players who have found their way into the Hall of Fame. Like Pete Rose, these are dishonorable men, but who is the greatest sinner? I, certainly, will not cast that stone. Pete Rose, like the ball players before him, should be considered for induction into the Hall of Fame based on his athleticism, not his ... baseball fans. In that context, a 1994 article in Sports Illustrated reported a telephone poll of Americans in which 97 percent of respondents said that Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame. The numbers speak f...

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10. Pete Rose

... played, to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. This man is Pete Rose. The reason is that they claim that Pete Rose bet on baseball games while he was manager of the Cincinnati Reds. Pete Rose denies the whole situation. Baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti suspended Pete Rose from association with professional baseball for life for gambling. With the problems ... , and in particular, on games of the Cincinnati Reds Baseball Club during the 1985, 1986, and 1987 seasons. It also was said that Pete Rose has went through many bookies while he was betting on baseball. Some of the names that Dowd s...

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