Posted By:
Frank WakefieldIt was proven that he bit on games.
There are major problems here.. 1) the clear rule that you don't gamble. 2) what are the bookies to think if sometimes you bet on your team, and sometimes you don't bet at all (it clues them in to favor the opposing team for that game) and 3) if you lose and lose and build up a gambling debt, then the debtor is either tempted or pressured into maybe doing something even worse to get out of debt...
Gambling is not like other moral matters in the baseball world. There's nothing posted on the locker room doors about whoring around... or doing cocaine. Go read the material I mentioned earlier, then you can understand why gambling is different, and Pete stays out of the Hall. He was a fiercely competitive player, a great hitter, he was always out to win. But he doesn't get into the Hall, ever.
Pete can get in for the day, whenever he has a ticket, just like the rest of us.