Pete Rose & Shoeless Joe Jackson HOF ?

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Originally Posted by John1941

A number of sources say that Rose was never on the HOF ballot, but according to Baseball Reference this is Pete Rose's HOF voting history:

1992, 9.5%
1993, 3.3%
1994, 4.2%

Maybe he was a write-in.

Yes, they were write-in votes. The Hall of Fame changed their rules the year Rose would have been first eligible to appear on the writers ballot to make anyone on MLB's ineligible list also ineligible to be on the Hall of Fame ballot.