[Dixie Yooper]

How can they call it a hall of fame if the greatest player ever keeps getting passed over? I’m talking about Pete Rose, since Ty Cobb is already in.

[wastedyears]

They’ve been holding betting against Pete Rose for a long time. If there wasn’t all of that against him, I imagine he would have been inducted already.

[green iguana]

if the greatest player ever keeps getting passed over

Maybe if he was eligible, that wouldn't happen...

[stevecmd]

How can they call it a hall of fame if the greatest player ever keeps getting passed over? I’m talking about Pete Rose, since Ty Cobb is already in.

Pete Rose broke a rule agreed upon by the union in collective bargaining. No fraternization with gamblers!

Case closed.

[DFG]

Pete Rose will get elected to the HOF by the veterans committee after he dies. Rose disgraced the game and should not be allowed to give an acceptance speech. Giving Rose the boot from baseball was one of the best moves ever made by a baseball commissioner. Wish we had an honorable man like Giamatti as commissioner now. Selig is the worst baseball commissioner of all time.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

“The greatest player”????? Man, the hyperbole police owe you one AWFUL whoopin’ - gambling loser, chronic whiner - all that aside - the standard in which Rose qualifies as ‘greatest player’ does not exist.

[Ditto]

How can they call it a hall of fame if the greatest player ever keeps getting passed over? I’m talking about Pete Rose, since Ty Cobb is already in.

They can put him in some hall of fame out here with his favorite team...

Pete Rose does not deserve Cooperstown.

[Ditto]

How can they call it a hall of fame if the greatest player ever keeps getting passed over? I’m talking about Pete Rose, since Ty Cobb is already in.

ROTFLMAO is you think Rose was a better ballplayer than Cobb. Cobb played in the dead-ball era when teams had no trainers and torn ligaments were treated with some tobacco juice and horse liniment. Yet Rose never came close to Cobb's averages. Rose played in 500+ more games and had 2500+ more at bats. Yet look at the batting average (+63 points for Cobb) and RBIs (+500 for Cobb).

The only real thing they had in common is that both were dirty players who would intentionally injure others and neither were the kind of people you would want you children to associate with.

And Cobb was not the greatest player in history. There are at least two ahead of him, IMHO.

Ty Cobb		Pete Rose
3,034	Games	3,562
11,434	AB	14,053
4,190	Hits	4,256
.366	BA	.303
724	2B	746
294	3B	135
118	HR	160
1,933	RBI	1,314
2,245	Runs	2,165

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[fhayek]

Several things wrong with your observation. Foremost, Pete Rose is NOT the greatest player ever. Not even close.