[JoeSixPack1]

I agree. But MLB will never let a loose nickel out of their grasp so an alternative shrine to Rose would be immediately answered with either a lawsuit or the HOF finally inducting him if for nothing else than to prevent anyone but MLB & HOF to benefit from his years in the league.

[yooper]

When MLB stops using juiced balls, and when MLB stops allowing people like Mark McGwire to take anabolic steroids which allow McGwire to hit many more home runs than he could have without them, then MLB can consider Rose to be 'a cheat'.

The precedent for this should be the Hornung/Karras incident. The NFL was smart enough to recognize that crucifying two of it's biggest stars would be bad for the game. The two were punished and then they were allowed back.

[supercat]

I agree. But MLB will never let a loose nickel out of their grasp so an alternative shrine to Rose would be immediately answered with either a lawsuit or the HOF finally inducting him if for nothing else than to prevent anyone but MLB & HOF to benefit from his years in the league.

Any such shrine would have to be sponsored entirely by voluntary donations, and make donors and visitors fully aware that it was neither sponsored by, nor endorsed by, Major League Baseball.

Provided those conditions were met, though, I'm not sure how Major League Baseball could effectively react; I don't think they'd have a meaningful trademark case (because of the explicit statements of non-endorsement) or could use other methods to shut the 'shrine' down. The real test for the shrine would be whether or not people took enough interest to make it worthwhile.