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Posted By: TBob

The Hall of Fame is strictly based on what you did on the field. If you eliminated all the weasels, jackasses and shady characters, there would be a lot of guys not in the HOF, including probably a quarter to a third of the guys who played in the Golden Age of baseball.
Rose is a jerk and I never liked him but give the devil his due. If you let in abrasive psychos like Ty Cobb, how can you not let Rose in. And don't give me the tired crapola of how Cobb never bet on baseball, he was betting when he was a player and the only reason he and Speaker and Joe Wood weren't booted out of baseball was because Kenesaw Mountain Landis had no balls when it came to punishing stars, only the ignorant (Jackson), the knowing but not acting (Weaver) and the inncoent (Kauf).