Letters to Sports: Put away morality card when it comes to Pete Rose Pete Rose hits a line drive to break Ty Cobb’s all-time hit record while playing for the Reds in 1985.

Whether Rose deserves to be in or not shouldn’t be decided by an entity that operates with no oversight beyond its own appointed board. But that’s the play that the Hall of Fame made in 1991.

Rose was banned from Major League Baseball over gambling allegations in 1989. He applied for reinstatement numerous times over the years before his death last September. A member of Cincinnati's ...

Not making it in was 100 percent due to his behavior, not his performance as a player. Rose played in MLB from 1963-1986. He won NL Rookie of the Year in 1963 and NL MVP in 1973.

Rose, the 1963 National League Rookie of the Year award winner and the 1973 NL MVP, was a member of three World Series-winning clubs, including the "Big Red Machine" Reds, which captured ...