Baseball superstar Pete Rose has has died at age 83.
While there is no denying that Rose was a generational talent, but he gambled on baseball games both as a player and as a coach, and he was banned from baseball, and as such is ineligible for the Hall of Fame.
This ban should remain, not because he bet, but because he bet on baseball.
While there are many athletes who have done contemptible things, racism and bigotry, partner abuse, drug abuse, and murder, but these are crimes against the society as a whole, they are not crimes against the sport.
He keeps his record, the most hits of any ballplayer ever, but he should never be readmitted to baseball or installed to Cooperstown.
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