Here is the latest on Bud Selig and Pete Rose. Maybe I'm dense, but I don't understand what Pete Rose's gambling has to do with his performance as a player. The National Baseball Hall of Fame should be for the best players. It is not for the best people. A good person can be a bad player and a bad person can be a good player. Let Pete Rose be as bad a person as you like; isn't that separable from what he did on the field of play over the course of his career? I hate it that the Hall mixes things that should be kept apart.
If the Hall insists on taking personal character into account, then we need a new Hall of Fame for on-the-field performance. What say you?
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 