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A Sure Thing

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A legend in many people eyes you would think, but not to some critics and especially the commissioner of baseball. Everybody in their lives make mistakes that we know are not right, but choose to do so any ways. As much as we would like to think so, no one is really perfect. Pete Rose has made mistakes in his life just like the rest of us, but just because of those mistakes he is being denied indicatory into what he has most earned and that is into the baseball hall of fame.

Pete Rose is one of the greatest baseball players in history. Pete played 22 years with three different teams: the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, and the Montreal Expos. In that time he has did something that nobody thought was possible and that was to break Ty Cobb’s record for most hits in a career, which was 4,191 hits (espn.com). Pete Rose ended his career with 4,256 career hits (espn.com). With such an amazing accomplishment alone should be an automatic indicatory into the hall of fame.
No matter how great Pete Rose was, some people just don’t believe that he should be inducted into the hall of fame because of his actions outside of baseball. Through Pete Rose’s career, he betted on sports and through his menagerie career he betted on the game of baseball including the team he was managing, the Reds(mlb.com). Betting violates major league rules and has violated major league rules that have been intact for over a hundred years (mlb.com).
Pete Rose was wrong in what he did, but what does betting on the game have to do with playing the game? Rose did bet on baseball in his years as a manger, but he was a manager during that time, not a player. Betting on a game after he was done playing should not cost Rose the hall of Fame. He was good enough to go in as a player, not a manager, so they should judge him by his skills and not what he does outside of the game(espn.com).
Pete Rose did not just break Ty Cobb’s record for career hits, but he...

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