If Cicotte makes it into the HOF, I will be very surprised. People forget that Cicotte was eligible from 1936 until about 1991 when the HOF passed the rule barring all players on MLB's permanent ineligible list. In all that time, as far as I can tell, he never received a single vote from the writers, and he was never elected by any of the veterans' committees. I suspect he never got any votes from the veterans' committees, but they had secret ballots at the time, so I can't know for sure.
It seems to me that the writers and committees repeatedly made the judgment that Cicotte is not worthy of the HOF because he deliberately threw the World Series. Unless today's veterans' committee has a wildly different opinion about the morality of throwing a World Series, the vote today will be the same.
Pete Rose is a different case because the writers and veterans' committees have never decided whether Rose's sins should keep him out of the HOF.
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