Those are just a few of the baseball players who somehow made into the Hall of Fame and got passed rule five. Pete Rose's problem was not even as severe as all of these other men. The argument here is, if these men can make it into the Hall of Fame why is Pete Rose banned. It is obvious that these players made it there with just their playing abilities and not by all of the other characteristics needed to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. .
Pete Rose started playing professional baseball in 1960 in the minor leagues and by 1963 he reached the Major Leagues as a rookie second baseman with the National League's Cincinnati Reds. Rose won the National League's Rookie of the Year Award for 1963. He spent most of his 24-year career playing with the Reds, Rose also played with the Phillies and the Expos. In 1985 Rose broke one of the most "unbreakable" records of all time, by passing out Ty Cobb for the most career hits ever. Rose holds many records, some of which are: most games played, most at bats, and most singles by a major league baseball player. All of these statistics are definitely Hall of Fame worthy. .
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. .
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.
