Pete Rose admits betting on baseball

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

If you would read about the origins of the National League, read about the gambling problems, read baseball's current rules about gambling, read Bill James' book The Politics of Glory, and then read Ginsburg's book The Fix is In, A History of Baseball Gambling and Game Fixing Scandals.... then you'd have enough background and education to understand why Pete should NEVER be inducted into the Hall of Fame. The only way he should get in is if he buys a ticket and is visiting the place.

And until you've read and understand how organized baseball shed itself of the gambling stigma, you can't understand why it makes perfect sense to keep Pete out of the Hall. Emotionally, some folks want him in... but that position cannot be rationally supported after you understand the gambling stigma.

Pete is in the Gamblers' HOF, be content with that.