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Bama Cat
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posted 09-30-2024 10:40 PM      Profile for Bama Cat   Email Bama Cat   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Maybe now he will be voted into the HOF. He has done so much better than anyone else in baseball it is a shame he isn't already there. Sure glad I have every one of his TOPPS baseball cards and a signed baseball by him. Makes my big baseball card collection worth even more.

"""Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hit king and the Cincinnati Reds icon whose signature gritty hustle couldn’t outpace the gambling transgressions and obfuscation that kept him out of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, has died, according to a spokesperson for the Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner in Nevada. He was 83.

Rose was one of baseball’s greats – a winning-obsessed sparkplug who topped MLB’s all-time hit list with 4,256 over a 24-season career. He stood out for his all-in effort, sliding head-first and running even when a pitcher walked him – a style that earned him the nickname, first derisively, then admiringly, “Charlie Hustle.”

He played for three World Series champion teams – the Reds’ stacked “Big Red Machine” roster in 1975 and 1976, and the Philadelphia Phillies in 1980 – was voted to the National League’s All-Star team 17 times, and won both the National League Rookie of the Year award (1963) and the Most Valuable Player award (1973).

But his gambling on his own team – and his denials – ended his budding baseball managerial career and kept the sport’s most prolific hitter from enjoying its highest honor."""

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posted 09-30-2024 10:49 PM      Profile for rlt4uk     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
He should be in the HOF. What he did after he retired shouldn't have any effect on what he did when he played.

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posted 10-01-2024 02:53 PM      Profile for Bama Cat   Email Bama Cat   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Problem is he bet on baseball while he was still playing.
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posted 10-01-2024 07:53 PM      Profile for rlt4uk     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I didn't realize that.

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