Pete Rose bet on his own team to lose. He has no right to be in the hall of fame. What he did was even worse than what guys like A-Rod and Bonds did. At least they were trying to WIN! There were some games where Rose was trying to lose.
CanadaMMA No way man. It's absolutely verified. He always bet on the Reds to win. Michael Jordan got caught by the NBA for betting on the Bulls. He was told to leave the game for a period of time, or the scandal would break to the media. That's why he went off to play baseball for a few years. Pete Rose should get the same courtesy.
CanadaMMA you are a moron. Whst he did didnt alter stats, and he was retired as a player and was managing. His stats and he earned along with the hall of fame shouldn't be with held from him. Pete the Legend!
Canadian man stop it. if your sole argument is he bet on baseball what about the other 4,191 hits? Pete is and will always be Charlie Hustle, The Hit King. Go Reds. Lets not forget 75-76 WS---The Great Eight.
Bud Selig keeping him out of the hall of hame will never change the fact that he is the all-time hit leader. That's one thing they will never be able to take away from him
@@mikerowley947 And that hypocrisy is why I'll never go to the Hall of Fame. If they ever induct Pete, I'll go. But if I die without ever going to Cooperstown, I won't be hurt by it.
Baseball stats matter more then any other sport.. For the All Time Hit leader to not be in the Hall Of Fame not be in the Hall Of Fame is a joke... Pete Rose for Sure deserves to be in there based on what he did on the field.
WOW!!! My sister just met this man, drove him around town and she didn't even know he was famous!! He was so NICE! They talked and joked and she had no clue,lol! He left her her first ever HUNDRED dollar tip! Classy Guy! :)
I'm a huge baseball fan and I remember this moment being live on TV. It's one of the greatest achievements in baseball in my lifetime. The only other one that comes to mind is Ripken passing Lou Gehrig. It must have been a thrill to see it live at the stadium.
For all of his mistakes he played the game clean and hard not many guys can say that..he deserves to be in the hall of fame I just hope they don't wait until he's dead to do it...
Times have changed and Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame! Legalized sports betting is apparently no big deal in today's society. Toronto, Canada is home to the Toronto Blue Jays and any adult can go into any convenience store, gas station, shopping mall or grocery store here in Toronto (or anywhere else in the Province of Ontario, for that matter) and bet on Major League Baseball games. Our government even encourages it! Reinstate Rose and get him inducted into the Hall of Fame!
I just met Pete Rose in Vegas, I was there with my mom and he was a total class act! "You only got one mom" He told me before taking a picture with both of us, I wish I was old enough to have watched him play as he must have been the real deal with all the records he holds! HOF bound some day, Charlie Hustle!
I was there September 12...He did come out and acknowledge the crowd. Held up the game 15 minutes. No complaint from me! So glad he was able to walk in as a Red for Joe Morgan's big day.
Hearing Marty and Joe calling this always gives me chills--even after all these years. Joe yelling off mike and Marty trying to be the true professional he is. That was a true magic moment.
The rules also say that pitchers cannot doctor baseballs yet Whitey Ford, who is in the Hall of Fame, has admitted to scratching baseballs with his wedding ring and muddying baseballs to get an edge over the hitter. In my opinion this form of cheating is by far worse than what Pete Rose has ever done. He's one of the greatest of all time, he needs to be recognized for it.
@masanf. Pete rose bet on his team to win. WIN not to lose but to win. If anything that would give him and his team that much more of a desire to win. Regardless what he did as a player deserves to be in the hall of fame period. He didn't cheat as a player he earned every hit he got. If you love baseball then you agree that Pete should be in the hall of fame.
I've been arguing for a couple of decades of my feeling about Charly Hustle. I liked that knickname they game him because no one, and I mean NO ONE ever hustled any harder than Peter Edward Rose aka Pete Rose. Ironically, his birthday in on 4/14 and he'll turn 73 yrs old. I don't care who the hell didn't like him. He is a Rock. A part of American History that you cherrish for the ages. If he had to take heat for betting, so be it. He did his "time" as they would say. Now it's long over due for this man to get his just do. He made the game better for America. Oh yeah, for those who believed in The Big Red Machine. They never won a title as that unit after Rose departed Cincy. What did Rose do? He went to Philly and helped them to their first title in 30 years. Again, let #14 into the Hall where he belongs. Baseball would be better off doing this while Pete is still here.
Put in the damn Hall of Fame as a player, not a manager. He was the epitome of being dedicated to a sport as a player before something rotten consumed him.
Say what you want about Pete Rose, but this record will NEVER be broken. It requires too many prerequisites which are pretty much unattainable in today's MLB. You need a minimum of a 20 year career with minimal injuries. Can't happen today.
My parents called us kids in to watch when this was about to happen. I remember this made the front page of our local paper. He was in commercials after that, I want to say a Nestle crunch commercial. Kids talked about it at school. Such good times back then. Maybe what he did with betting was wrong but he shouldn't be denied his success.
I am NOT a Pete Rose fan, he is an arrogant SOB. I am baseball fan and what he did is nothing to be ashamed of. Who doesn't want their team to win? I would bet my team to win any day of the week if I was a pro. That is the idea right? TO WIN? Pete Rose deserves to be in the HOF and one day will be. Just as soon as the man who has ruined baseball steps down as commissioner.
Exactly. Bar-ROID Bonds breaking that record, cheating AF. Pete Rose didn't put any foreign substances in his body to break his hit record. Oh yeah, his gambling as a manager was wrong but his playing career was 100 percent legit. Bonds's wasn't.
This guy deserves the hallof fame. A record that still hasnt been broken. - Yet youll go and see mark and sammys roided-out bats there but not this man. Sad :(
@GotsaSmall I agree-I grew up watching Pete Rose play-He earned the nick-name "Charlie Hustle"-He was exciting to watch-He would turn a single into a double easy-I saw pete rose hit a ball on several occasions and he never stop running it was called a inside the park homerun -the man was awesome-he should be in the Hall of Fame by special request from all of this fans who watched him play and love him
Rules don't say you will be permanently banned for doctoring baseball, but they DO say you will for betting on your own team - win or lose, Pete did, Pete was unapologetic, Pete's banned.
On this day in 1986 {August 14th} Pete Rose, played for the Cincinnati Reds, had his 4,256th and last base hit in a game against the San Francisco Giants...
a record that will never be broken what makes it that much more special all years done in the national league without the DH of the american league ty charlie hustle long live the BRM
On this date in 1963 {Apr. 23rd} Pete Rose got the 1st hit of his record 4,256 career hits.. Nine years earlier on this very same date Hank Aaron hit the 1st of his 755 career home runs...
Great moment, and Cobb is still the best hitter/runner in the history of the game. Cobb supposedly was the most miserable man on Earth, and he's in the HoF, so what gives? If McGwire, Sosa, Bonds and Manny get in, Rose HAS to...
My only regret about it is it happened a day after my birthday. Seeing Charlie Hustle break it on my birthday would have been a great birthday present.
Mas temprano que tarde mayor ligue base ball tendrá que reconocer que el Legendario Pete Rose es el dueño de ese record que hoy día parece imposible de romper como lo es el jugador que mas hits ha conectado en toda la historia de las grandes ligas.Independientemente de todo lo que paso despues Pete Rose merece ser reconocido como el máximo hiteador de toda la historia en las grandes ligas.Honor a quien honor merece.
For people like myself who played alot of ball as a kid at theh time when Rose was playing for Cincinnati , Rose was the the main man. Our Dad's would tell us ' play like Pete ,with everything youve got ,or dont play at all . Give 100% always.Cliche ? We wouldnt have dared to just walk off the field on 3rd out or stroll casually to 1st after a walk or a hit . Playing like Rose made baseball more fun . there could not have been a better role model purely in a baseball playing sense , than Pete
I see at Wikipedia that some believe Pete Rose actually broke Ty Cobb's all-time hits record three days earlier on Sep. 8, 1985 with his 4,191st, connecting off Chicago Cubs' Reggie Allen Patterson with a single in the first inning of a Reds' 5-5 called game. Reggie Patterson shouldn't be confused with outfielder Corey Patterson, who broke into MLB with the Cubs in 2000. However, online sources say Reggie Patterson's last MLB appearance came on Corey Patterson's 2nd birthday: AUGUST 13, 1981
To those saying that since he bet on the game than he should be banned, than you must be the happiest idiot ever. He bet FOR his team to win! If he had bet for them to loose than I'd understand but he was betting for his team to win. How in the hell is this even close to a crime? You would think that if he was betting on the W than he would push his players to be better and to win more. Smh HoF is incomplete without this legend.
Ironically, Bonds, Sosa, and others broke federal laws by obtaining/using illegal growth hormones - which is a felony offense. Yet they are eligible for the Hall of Fame. All while Bud Selig turned a blind eye to these felons and their super human strength.
It's because, as a manager, you don't necessarily try to win every game. Sometimes it's better to lose than to blow out your bullpen, or expose a pinch hitter, etc. You might win *two* games later on, if you do that. Unless, of course, you have your own personal money on that one game. Then yeah, it might be better to give up the team's overall best interest - and the season - just to win that one game.
Say what you want about Pete Rose good or bad but there's on thing I think we can all agree on. That's when Pete came to the ballpark he brought his "A GAME" with him.
That was the commentators' long time friend Joe Nuxall, both Cincinnati legends. NOBODY thinks Joe was wrong to do that, in fact it only added to the moment.
Joe made no apologies for clearly rooting for his beloved Reds, and he was truly exciting to listen to. I loved the World Series in 1970, 1972, 1975, and 1976, but the network broadcasts should have included Joe Nuxhall (He did get to be on the air for 1990).
As a long time Reds fan, I want to try and put it into a perspective. In any minor league camp there's a sign in the dug out that reads, "If you bet on the game of baseball, you will be expelled from the game of baseball." That sign has always been there-not just since Rose. Since the Blacksox scandal of 1919 there has been a no tolerance policy for gambling in baseball. Pete knew that, and he did it anyway. This isn't boxing! I believe his punishment should be getting into the hall posthumously
And of course - like the Cincinnati home runs at the old Riverfront Stadium - the 4,192nd hit of Pete Rose - though not a home run, caused the stadium pyrotechnician to fire off bursts into the air. And it is not just bursts into the air. It is something like a fireworks finale of sorts - 400 to about 500 or so shots. It is like a finale cake firework shooters often used on the 4th of July! All these explosions for the great Pete Rose - before he was banned from baseball for gambling later on.
@PirateEyepatch First off, his career wasn't ruined. In fact, Ray Fosse played until 1979. Secondly, he changed the game of baseball because he dedicated his game to hustle. Ask any high school coach what hustle means to them. They will pick the worst player if he can show some hustle.
Rose gets more attention by NOT being in the Hall of Fame than if he had been put in years ago..303 lifetime hitter(Cobb`s was .367),160 homers,.409 lifetime slugging average(Ruth`s was .690)!Trust me, if Rose had been elected to the Hall of Fame 15 years or so ago,we wouldn`t even be talking about him.He should be happy!
"Do I think Pete should be in the Hall? Pete Rose should have his own wing in the Hall."......Mike Schmidt.
Pete Rose bet on his own team to lose. He has no right to be in the hall of fame. What he did was even worse than what guys like A-Rod and Bonds did. At least they were trying to WIN! There were some games where Rose was trying to lose.
CanadaMMA No way man. It's absolutely verified. He always bet on the Reds to win. Michael Jordan got caught by the NBA for betting on the Bulls. He was told to leave the game for a period of time, or the scandal would break to the media. That's why he went off to play baseball for a few years. Pete Rose should get the same courtesy.
CanadaMMA you are a moron. Whst he did didnt alter stats, and he was retired as a player and was managing. His stats and he earned along with the hall of fame shouldn't be with held from him. Pete the Legend!
Canadian man stop it. if your sole argument is he bet on baseball what about the other 4,191 hits? Pete is and will always be Charlie Hustle, The Hit King. Go Reds. Lets not forget 75-76 WS---The Great Eight.
CanadaMMA-- stick to Hockey
The Baseball Hall of Fame is incomplete without Pete Rose. He has earned a spot in Cooperstown; one of the greatest there ever was!!
Bud Selig keeping him out of the hall of hame will never change the fact that he is the all-time hit leader. That's one thing they will never be able to take away from him
4256 total hits...This needs to be recognized in the hall of fame...He never bet on his team to lose ...
lowell franks.. it is recognized. There is alottt of Rose in the hall, of his stories and accomplishments. He's just in the plaque gallery
@@mikerowley947 And that hypocrisy is why I'll never go to the Hall of Fame. If they ever induct Pete, I'll go. But if I die without ever going to Cooperstown, I won't be hurt by it.
Pete Rose is one of the all time greats. He deserves to be in the hall of fame more than most of the players already in there.
PETE ROSE SHOULD BE IN THE HALL OF FAME
Marty and joe with the call....best radio brodcasting team in history....R.I.P joe
a record that will never be broken
Best hitter in baseball. No question he deserves to be in the hall.
This call still gives me chills everytime I listen to it.
Put this man in the Hall of fame
Baseball stats matter more then any other sport.. For the All Time Hit leader to not be in the Hall Of Fame not be in the Hall Of Fame is a joke... Pete Rose for Sure deserves to be in there based on what he did on the field.
Rose, Jackson, Cobb, now that's BASEBALL!!!!
he always played his heart out. i always rooted for him and i a from new york!
Ty Cobb...............Thank you and goodnight.
WOW!!! My sister just met this man, drove him around town and she didn't even know he was famous!! He was so NICE! They talked and joked and she had no clue,lol! He left her her first ever HUNDRED dollar tip! Classy Guy! :)
I'm a huge baseball fan and I remember this moment being live on TV. It's one of the greatest achievements in baseball in my lifetime. The only other one that comes to mind is Ripken passing Lou Gehrig. It must have been a thrill to see it live at the stadium.
Pete Rose Hall of Fame...
For all of his mistakes he played the game clean and hard not many guys can say that..he deserves to be in the hall of fame I just hope they don't wait until he's dead to do it...
The GOAT, belongs in the hall. End of story.
Pete needs to be and should be in the HALL O F FAME!!!!!!!
My mom was at this game!!
Pete Rose is one of baseball's all time greatest players and should be honored with a spot at the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Times have changed and Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame! Legalized sports betting is apparently no big deal in today's society. Toronto, Canada is home to the Toronto Blue Jays and any adult can go into any convenience store, gas station, shopping mall or grocery store here in Toronto (or anywhere else in the Province of Ontario, for that matter) and bet on Major League Baseball games. Our government even encourages it! Reinstate Rose and get him inducted into the Hall of Fame!
Just saw him at the Great 8 last night! AWESOME!
Best baseball player ever.
Got the distinct pleasure of meeting Pete yesterday at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas...What a wonderful gentleman he is...
Put Pete in the Hall already!!
Best part of the video is good old Nuxhall yelling behind Marty, "THERE IT IS! THERE IT IS! GET DOWN!!"
I just met Pete Rose in Vegas, I was there with my mom and he was a total class act! "You only got one mom" He told me before taking a picture with both of us, I wish I was old enough to have watched him play as he must have been the real deal with all the records he holds! HOF bound some day, Charlie Hustle!
Great video package. Thanks for posting.
This man belongs in the hall of fame unanimously
I was there September 12...He did come out and acknowledge the crowd. Held up the game 15 minutes. No complaint from me!
So glad he was able to walk in as a Red for Joe Morgan's big day.
Hearing Marty and Joe calling this always gives me chills--even after all these years.
Joe yelling off mike and Marty trying to be the true professional he is. That was a true magic moment.
Pete always had the coolest bowlcut hairdo!!
The rules also say that pitchers cannot doctor baseballs yet Whitey Ford, who is in the Hall of Fame, has admitted to scratching baseballs with his wedding ring and muddying baseballs to get an edge over the hitter. In my opinion this form of cheating is by far worse than what Pete Rose has ever done. He's one of the greatest of all time, he needs to be recognized for it.
WATCHED THE REUNION OF THE GREAT 8 LAST NIGHT BROUGHT BACK SOME GREAT CHILDHOOD MEMORIES ! THANK YOU BIG RED MACHINE!
Petes mom, and brother look exactly like him.
Sas Quatch lol i noticed that as well
You mean they look exactly like her
Pete's the man!! as far as im concerned Charlie Hustle owns the hall of fame! Great memories watching him play when i was a kid.
@masanf. Pete rose bet on his team to win. WIN not to lose but to win. If anything that would give him and his team that much more of a desire to win. Regardless what he did as a player deserves to be in the hall of fame period. He didn't cheat as a player he earned every hit he got. If you love baseball then you agree that Pete should be in the hall of fame.
I've been arguing for a couple of decades of my feeling about Charly Hustle. I liked that knickname they game him because no one, and I mean NO ONE ever hustled any harder than Peter Edward Rose aka Pete Rose. Ironically, his birthday in on 4/14 and he'll turn 73 yrs old. I don't care who the hell didn't like him. He is a Rock. A part of American History that you cherrish for the ages. If he had to take heat for betting, so be it. He did his "time" as they would say. Now it's long over due for this man to get his just do. He made the game better for America. Oh yeah, for those who believed in The Big Red Machine. They never won a title as that unit after Rose departed Cincy. What did Rose do? He went to Philly and helped them to their first title in 30 years. Again, let #14 into the Hall where he belongs. Baseball would be better off doing this while Pete is still here.
One of the greatest players to ever play the game. Icon
I think he might get reinstated posthumously.
Not a Reds fan, but he deserves it. The fact that ARod will be in, and get more HRs than Griffey Jr, when he juiced, is screwed up.
Put in the damn Hall of Fame as a player, not a manager. He was the epitome of being dedicated to a sport as a player before something rotten consumed him.
@30inventionman Ty Cobb, man. The record was old as shit. Pete Rose deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.
Always did and Always will like Pete Rose!
Say what you want about Pete Rose, but this record will NEVER be broken. It requires too many prerequisites which are pretty much unattainable in today's MLB. You need a minimum of a 20 year career with minimal injuries. Can't happen today.
My parents called us kids in to watch when this was about to happen. I remember this made the front page of our local paper. He was in commercials after that, I want to say a Nestle crunch commercial. Kids talked about it at school.
Such good times back then.
Maybe what he did with betting was wrong but he shouldn't be denied his success.
I am NOT a Pete Rose fan, he is an arrogant SOB. I am baseball fan and what he did is nothing to be ashamed of. Who doesn't want their team to win? I would bet my team to win any day of the week if I was a pro. That is the idea right? TO WIN?
Pete Rose deserves to be in the HOF and one day will be. Just as soon as the man who has ruined baseball steps down as commissioner.
"When Bonds set the all time HR record it was, as Bob Costas said, 'a joyless exercise.'"
Love it. Costas is awesome.
Exactly. Bar-ROID Bonds breaking that record, cheating AF. Pete Rose didn't put any foreign substances in his body to break his hit record. Oh yeah, his gambling as a manager was wrong but his playing career was 100 percent legit. Bonds's wasn't.
@@rjm22nd That's why I always regard Henry Aaron as the true home run king; he did it fair and square.
@@rjm22ndHe did do amphetamines some.
WHOA! That's a hard pill to swallow.
This guy deserves the hallof fame. A record that still hasnt been broken. - Yet youll go and see mark and sammys roided-out bats there but not this man. Sad :(
@GotsaSmall I agree-I grew up watching Pete Rose play-He earned the nick-name "Charlie Hustle"-He was exciting to watch-He would turn a single into a double easy-I saw pete rose hit a ball on several occasions and he never stop running it was called a inside the park homerun -the man was awesome-he should be in the Hall of Fame by special request from all of this fans who watched him play and love him
Ty Cobb was the best pure hitter in the game I loved watching him in Detroit
Rules don't say you will be permanently banned for doctoring baseball, but they DO say you will for betting on your own team - win or lose, Pete did, Pete was unapologetic, Pete's banned.
Pete Rose is Baseball. The Hall of Fame need to get over themselves and put him where he belongs.
Those were the best teams of all time that mlb has had. The 1975 and 1976 reds.
On this day in 1986 {August 14th} Pete Rose, played for the Cincinnati Reds, had his 4,256th and last base hit in a game against the San Francisco Giants...
a record that will never be broken what makes it that much more special all years done in the national league without the DH of the american league ty charlie hustle long live the BRM
2:02 most 80’s girl ever
Pete should be in the hall of fame.
What a day.
Pete played the game of baseball the way it should be played he was a gamer. He should be in the hall of fame 4,256 hits don't come easy
MLB will continue to be an embarrassment till Rose is in the HOF.
On this date in 1963 {Apr. 23rd} Pete Rose got the 1st hit of his record 4,256 career hits..
Nine years earlier on this very same date Hank Aaron hit the 1st of his 755 career home runs...
Great moment, and Cobb is still the best hitter/runner in the history of the game. Cobb supposedly was the most miserable man on Earth, and he's in the HoF, so what gives? If McGwire, Sosa, Bonds and Manny get in, Rose HAS to...
ROSE SHOULD BE HALL OF FAMER
Wow that's amazing
FREE PETE
My only regret about it is it happened a day after my birthday. Seeing Charlie Hustle break it on my birthday would have been a great birthday present.
i seen pete rose at a few reds games they showed on tv
Hi Pete rose God bless you 💖 🙏, I think you are thr greatest player
Thank you Manfred
Mas temprano que tarde mayor ligue base ball tendrá que reconocer que el Legendario Pete Rose es el dueño de ese record que hoy día parece imposible de romper como lo es el jugador que mas hits ha conectado en toda la historia de las grandes ligas.Independientemente de todo lo que paso despues Pete Rose merece ser reconocido como el máximo hiteador de toda la historia en las grandes ligas.Honor a quien honor merece.
I'm not even from Cinncinati and I think they should re-instate the man and induct him into Cooperstown.
I don't need the Bud Selig or the HOF to tell me who this man is. This man is the greatest hitter of all time, the most durable player of all times.
The Man...
Well said.
Put Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame
how did Pete Rose hit 4,256 balls in all
For people like myself who played alot of ball as a kid at theh time when Rose was playing for Cincinnati , Rose was the the main man. Our Dad's would tell us ' play like Pete ,with everything youve got ,or dont play at all . Give 100% always.Cliche ? We wouldnt have dared to just walk off the field on 3rd out or stroll casually to 1st after a walk or a hit . Playing like Rose made baseball more fun . there could not have been a better role model purely in a baseball playing sense , than Pete
best haircut in baseball, best hitter, true hall of famer
pete rose the best...
I see at Wikipedia that some believe Pete Rose actually broke Ty Cobb's all-time hits record three days earlier on Sep. 8, 1985 with his 4,191st, connecting off Chicago Cubs' Reggie Allen Patterson with a single in the first inning of a Reds' 5-5 called game. Reggie Patterson shouldn't be confused with outfielder Corey Patterson, who broke into MLB with the Cubs in 2000. However, online sources say Reggie Patterson's last MLB appearance came on Corey Patterson's 2nd birthday: AUGUST 13, 1981
To those saying that since he bet on the game than he should be banned, than you must be the happiest idiot ever. He bet FOR his team to win! If he had bet for them to loose than I'd understand but he was betting for his team to win. How in the hell is this even close to a crime? You would think that if he was betting on the W than he would push his players to be better and to win more. Smh HoF is incomplete without this legend.
Ironically, Bonds, Sosa, and others broke federal laws by obtaining/using illegal growth hormones - which is a felony offense. Yet they are eligible for the Hall of Fame. All while Bud Selig turned a blind eye to these felons and their super human strength.
It's because, as a manager, you don't necessarily try to win every game. Sometimes it's better to lose than to blow out your bullpen, or expose a pinch hitter, etc. You might win *two* games later on, if you do that. Unless, of course, you have your own personal money on that one game. Then yeah, it might be better to give up the team's overall best interest - and the season - just to win that one game.
What a stupid argument... A real player. A real manager. A real fighter wants to win EVERY game.
The Padres didn't sit around. Only Eric Show did. He sat on the mound and pouted.
Say what you want about Pete Rose good or bad but there's on thing I think we can all agree on. That's when Pete came to the ballpark he brought his "A GAME" with him.
#HALLOFFAMEPETEROSE
the Padres catcher in that game is going to the hall of fame before rose
That was the commentators' long time friend Joe Nuxall, both Cincinnati legends. NOBODY thinks Joe was wrong to do that, in fact it only added to the moment.
Joe made no apologies for clearly rooting for his beloved Reds, and he was truly exciting to listen to. I loved the World Series in 1970, 1972, 1975, and 1976, but the network broadcasts should have included Joe Nuxhall (He did get to be on the air for 1990).
As a long time Reds fan, I want to try and put it into a perspective. In any minor league camp there's a sign in the dug out that reads, "If you bet on the game of baseball, you will be expelled from the game of baseball." That sign has always been there-not just since Rose. Since the Blacksox scandal of 1919 there has been a no tolerance policy for gambling in baseball. Pete knew that, and he did it anyway. This isn't boxing! I believe his punishment should be getting into the hall posthumously
Ty Cobb
Bonds, Sosa, McGwire and all the others did far more to hurt the integrity of baseball than anything Pete did.
WHY ISN'T HE IN THE WALL OF FAME THAT IS AWESOME!
nice!
My dad was at this game, at the concessions, and missed the hit.
And of course - like the Cincinnati home runs at the old Riverfront Stadium - the 4,192nd hit of Pete Rose - though not a home run, caused the stadium pyrotechnician to fire off bursts into the air.
And it is not just bursts into the air. It is something like a fireworks finale of sorts - 400 to about 500 or so shots. It is like a finale cake firework shooters often used on the 4th of July!
All these explosions for the great Pete Rose - before he was banned from baseball for gambling later on.
Did he talk about this vid on a podcast? Do you remember which one?
@PirateEyepatch First off, his career wasn't ruined. In fact, Ray Fosse played until 1979. Secondly, he changed the game of baseball because he dedicated his game to hustle. Ask any high school coach what hustle means to them. They will pick the worst player if he can show some hustle.
@afireinside44203 I totally agree, and you are one of the 1st to make that statement. Deny him the hall as a manager, But NOT a player.
i love how the babies eating the microphone
Rose gets more attention by NOT being in the Hall of Fame than if he had been put in years ago..303 lifetime hitter(Cobb`s was .367),160 homers,.409 lifetime slugging average(Ruth`s was .690)!Trust me, if Rose had been elected to the Hall of Fame 15 years or so ago,we wouldn`t even be talking about him.He should be happy!