You do know that Pete rose and his lawyers agreed and sign the papers to take this punishment to call off the investigation that was still on going? They may not have uncovered the worse he did at that point. Besides the point, the point was he signed off on it so I feel no sympathy
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This is true, but wasn't it in effect a 'plea bargain', and he was promised by the then head of BB Ueberoth and then Giamatti, that after 2 or 3 years he would be ok again?
Then they totally reneged. The thing is, of course he shouldn't have been betting at all , for a lot of very good reasons, but he always bet on his team,to win.
HOF is mostly for players first, managers second, he was betting as a manager, didn't bet ( or wasn't busted for it) as a player, and as a player is is for sure one of the best there ever was.
Caveat:
I have met Pete Rose , spent an afternoon with him a few years ago, I think he remains banned because he is a really hard person to like ( to put it mildly) . Man...Charlie Hustle sure could play baseball tho!