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Dear Pete Rose: It's Still a No. Sincerely, Baseball
| New York Times |

I’ve said it before and now I’m saying it again: Major League Baseball should make Pete Rose eligible for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Ban him from being a manager or a coach or an owner or a ballpark hot dog vendor, bar him from ballpark events and appearances, stop him from working on the MLB Network; do everything that properly and legitimately bans him from baseball for life—but give him a chance to have his plaque on the wall in Cooperstown.

The Hall of Fame is a sham as long as Pete Rose isn’t at least given the chance to be voted in.