Say it ain’t so, Joe.
One threw the world series and took a dive. Pete Rose bet FOR his own team to win. He would have LOST money by throwing the game. His bet would make him fight harder.
Not the same.
Pretty safe bet for the commissioner to reinstate them since they’re dead.
Shoeless Joe Jackson was an unsophisticated country boy who got suckered in. I drove past his memorial in Greenville SC
The 1919 World Series. During the World Series in question, Jackson had led both teams in several statistical categories and set a World Series record with 12 base hits.
obviously, he wasn’t a gambler against his own team...
I agreed with the ban on Rose, but Shoeless Joe got painted with the same brush everyone else did. He really got a raw deal. He should be consensus HOF on the next vote.
What difference does it make? Rose is old and Jackson is dead.
When I watch bits of MLB I see ads for Casinos in many, if not all MLB ballparks. In addition lots of states allow and even encourage betting on sports (I’m sure they get a cut).Maybe this is a recognition that attitudes towards sports gambling have changed over the years. Not saying it’s a good thing, but it is a thing.
FINALY! MY BASEBALL HERO WILL BE IN THE HALL OF FAME!!
It was bound to happen. Rose has too many records, can’t keep him out of the Hall forever. The ban was correct, he broke the big rule. But, lifetime is lifetime, he ain’t alive anymore.
It was a lifetime ban. His life is over. So is the ban.
Sounds fair.
I feel better about Jackson, who was a victim of being “near” the scandal and not being very bright.
Put them both in the HoF. Put a note on their plaque about being banned for gambling to satisfy the purists if necessary. But they both deserve to be in, IMO.
Of course, players, coaches, and umpires should be completely prohibited from gambling on baseball, but the league and the teams are profiting a great deal from gambling on baseball.
Seems to me just a bit hypocritical. And we are likely going to see a big gambling scandal hit one of the major sports sooner or later.
He was my favorite player of all time. I modeled my playing ball after him.
He was pretty much a sick, deviant, sexually predatory scumbag.
The first good decision by MLB in decades.
Jackson? Without the lifetime ban, he would be just like the other big names from that era. Now he has lost the thing that separated him from those others. Everybody remembers his name, but .... quick .... name one of the other 7 who were banned.
Rose should have known better but must have thought he was smarter than everybody else and would not get caught, or maybe it would just blow over. Looks like he wasn't wrong, just ahead of his time.
Considering that national bookie joints are sponsors of MLB now, it seems a bit precious to pretend they still have concerns about gamblers.
It’s absurd this didn’t happen when Rose was still alive.