This is stupid because they’re already in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, which is both a register and a literal museum. They’re both in the museum, and they both committed acts they knew could result in lifetime bans. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to keep them from being honored as inductees.
Shoeless Joe I can kind of get behind, because while the truth is that he did knowingly participate, he was also tempted with a life-changing amount of money in an age when athletes couldn’t afford to take the off season off. And there’s the fact that Charles Comiskey was in on it and shifted his share of the blame onto the players, and probably would have framed anyone who objected.
Pete Rose, however, is a true degenerate, whom we can only hope is experiencing a Hell in which 14 year old girls are forever just out of reach. He’s in the Hall of Fame and Museum in the only part of the building he needs to be, which is in an exhibit. The man agreed to accept a lifetime ban, with NO contest, because the commissioner offered him a choice between that and having the investigation made public. And it wasn’t, not fully. But knowing that, and knowing that he was gambling, and that he was a manager? You cannot sell me the idea that Pete Rose wasn’t fixing games, not for a penny, even if you threw in Hawaii. If we can’t get the Hall of Fame to keep out sexual degenerates, they should at least have the decency to keep out people who literally fixed and threw games.
Yeah, can’t they just re-ban Rose for the whole paedophilia thing? A kind of “we’ve had one ban, yes, but what about second banning?”
They’re still dead tho right? The commissioner can’t do necromancy ? Did they figure that out in collective bargaining?
The commissioner can do whatever they want!
But no, they wanted them to stay dead. Something about helping the numbers, I dunno.
Man fuck Pete Rose. He deserved to be banned.
Cool.
In addition to Rose and [Shoeless Joe] Jackson, the other deceased players that were reinstated by MLB are Eddie Cicotte, Happy Felsch, Chick Gandil, Fred McMullin, Swede Risberg, Buck Weaver, Lefty Williams, Joe Gedeon, Gene Paulette, Benny Kauff, Lee Magee, Phil Douglas, Cozy Dolan, Jimmy O’Connell and William Cox.
A bit off topic but this is like a who’s who of goofy baseball names. Baseball’s missing its quirky first/nick names nowadays
