by Terence MooreFiled under: Reds, MLB Gambling, MLB Hall of Fame, MLB Media Watch, Sports Business and MediaConfessions never are too late. So, after 47 years, whoever really shot JFK still can step forward. Plus, what a teary-eyed Pete Rose said inside a packed ballroom over the weekend at a southern Indiana casino was the verbal line drive he needed for a plaque in Cooperstown.
Rose will make the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Just watch.
It'll happen sooner than later, because the Veterans Committee will do what those of us who vote every year for Hall of Famers as members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America couldn't do. We couldn't vote for Rose (you know, even if we wanted to), because he was never on the ballot. He was ineligible due to his lifetime ban from the game in 1989 for betting on baseball as a manager of the same Reds that he helped make famous as a player in his native Cincinnati.
Rose lied about his betting, too. Then he sort of confessed in a mostly insulting book, and then he hinted later during interviews that those actually were his fingerprints on the betting slips baseball officials discovered at the start of their investigation. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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