Does Pete Rose Belong In The Hall Of Fame?
Hey you! Is there anybody out there? Just smile if you can hear me…Get Pete Rose into the Baseball Hall of Fame, right now! What the heck is going on around here. A personal vendetta, perhaps, what do you say to that Bud? Someone is slowly dragging their feet around here and it stinks worst then yesterdays diapers.
As far as I am concerned, he has paid his dues. Another championship year almost gone by and nothing. Pete Rose has fueled many conversations both good and bad over the years, but I think that everyone can agree on this, especially with the watered down version of enthusiasm used in Major League Baseball today. No one player in my 35 years plus of watching baseball games, played the game with the spark and fire that came out of this players body. If I see NY Mets centerfielder Carlos Beltran take another 3rd strike down the middle for the last out of the NY Mets season and smile, I am going to drop three cookies, and I am not talking oatmeal here. Plus My tv set is going to suffer some ill-feated damages.
How in the world, can Baseball’s Superstars look us in the face today and say “Yeah, I drank some soupy substance, because someone told me I would heal twice as fast as Wolverine from the X-Men” and turn a 1 year rehabilitative stint into a two month rehab. Still playing Major League ball? Look at all we have tolerated, and this compared to Pete Rose is what? All the names of athletes that continued to play amidst admitting that they used steroids and other substances to enhance their performances to super hero levels and here we have the one of the greatest players to ever wear a baseball uniform and we deny him entry into Baseball Immortality. Did he violate, hell yes!!! Pete Rose broke the rules associated with gambling and baseball, but I believe he has paid his dues. Plus he competed all of his tasks without super-hero strength, at least any derived from an illegal substance.
Actively today, I enjoy collecting Pete Rose sports cards, “Charlie Hustle” Pete Rose sports cards trade at a competitive level and his cards command quite a bit of funds. When I purchase his baseball cards I know what level of play he performed at and what he played like, plus I get to see that stats that put him at that superstar level with the Big Red machine and the Philadelphia Phillies and the defunct Montreal Expos. On the field, Pete Rose stood for everything that was good with Baseball, just how your dad taught you to play, hard. Slide head first, choke up with two strikes, put your head into the game, and yes kick someone’s butt if they look at you hard after you spiked them with a slide into second base. Can anyone remember the NY Mets vs. Cincinnatti during the league championship series in 1973. Pete Rose and Bud Harrelson ended up scraping on 2nd base after a bang-bang play. Hey they hated each other much before that play anyway, but with Pete Rose’s demeanor any given play could have erupted into a fight.
Fire, Desire, and the same mental instability necessary for a gambler is what made Pete Rose great on the field. Let him in the Hall…Immortalize him not for his character, but rather the way he played the game. Another great part of the 1970’s.
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So, do you think Pete Rose belongs in the Hall Of Fame? Comments welcome at the bottom of the page.
Early Pete Rose
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1969 Topps PETE ROSE # 120 (BVG 7) $69.99 |
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1988 Topps #475 PETE ROSE, MGR Cincinnati Reds NM $0.99 |
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1985 Topps #547 PETE ROSE Mgr Cincinnati Reds Ex+ $0.25 |
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1986 Topps #3 The PETE ROSE Years (67, 68, 79, 70) EX+ $0.99 |
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1986 Topps #6 The PETE ROSE Years (79, 80, 81, 82) EXMT $0.99 |
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1975 TOPPS #320 PETE ROSE NMMT *95815 $24.99 |
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1975 TOPPSMINI #320 PETE ROSE NM *95774 $18.00 |
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1984 DONRUSS NO. 61 PETE ROSE – PHILLIES NM/MT $6.00 |
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1982 SPORTS ILL.- CARL YASTRZEMSKI & PETE ROSE COVER $3.95 |
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1974 TOPPS #300 PETE ROSE NM *186769 $15.00 |
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1974 TOPPS #336 BOBBY MURCER/PETE ROSE NM *186599 $4.00 |
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1975 TOPPS #320 PETE ROSE NM *186774 $18.00 |
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1976 TOPPS #240 PETE ROSE NM *186767 $15.00 |
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1978 TOPPS #20 PETE ROSE NM *186665 $5.00 |
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1978 TOPPS #5 PETE ROSE NM *186573 $4.00 |
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REDS Pete Rose AUTO 8×10 Plaque w/COA $89.99 |
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PETE ROSE AUTOGRAPHED 8X10 PHOTO REDS $21.50 |
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Pete Rose auto, the hit king who broke Ty Cobbs record $15.50 |
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(4) 1970 TOPPS SUPER – PETE ROSE, McLain, Petrocelli $5.50 |
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1983 Official Pete Rose Price Guide Rose cover Phillies $3.79 |
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Pete Rose Cincinnati Reds Headfirst Slide 8×10 Photo $14.95 Show support for your favorite celebrity or athlete with a high quality photo! This 8×10 will look great displayed in any fan’s home or office. Unsigned photo is perfect for obtaining your own signature or framing and is mailed via USPS in photo mailer…. |
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Cincinnati Reds – Great American Ballpark – Lg – Wood Mounted Poster Print $79.95 Aerial picture of Great American Ballpark, home of MLB’s Cincinnati Reds, during the 2003 baseball season…. |
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The Serpent’s Kiss [VHS] $3.00 Fans of Peter Greenaway’s arch and ornate films (The Draughtsman’s Contract, Drowning by Numbers) may enjoy The Serpent’s Kiss. A young Dutch landscape artist named Chrome (Ewan MacGregor) is hired by a homely but rich landowner named Smithers (Pete Postlethwaite, In the Name of the Father, The Usual Suspects) to turn his overgrown estate into a masterpiece of topiary and hedge mazes. But unbeknow… |
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The Who – The Kids Are Alright [VHS] $5.49 Half its members may be dead and its leader may be keeping a low profile, but the Who remains enormously popular. Devotees who haven’t availed themselves of Jeff Stein’s thrilling, self-mocking 1979 documentary about the group shouldn’t wait another minute now that the film has been painstakingly–perhaps heroically–restored to its theatrical-release length from original elements. The sound is cl… |
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Rich Diesslins Funny General – Editorial Cartoons – Pete Rose Tell-All Book – Light Switch Covers – single toggle switch $11.75 Pete Rose Tell-All Book Light Switch Cover is new and handcrafted utilizing unique process resulting in a stunning high gloss ceramic-like finish. SET OF MATCHING SCREWS IS INCLUDED giving it a perfect finishing touch. Made of durable metal material…. |