Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Charlie Hustle is a Hall of Famer

This past weekend another baseball Hall of Fame class was inducted in Cooperstown, New York. It included Jim Rice who was dominant in his era and deserved to be in long ago, and Rickey Henderson who was always good for a quote, and an outstanding baseball player with pure speed. Reports say that Hank Aaron has commissioner Bud Selig's ear and is nudging Selig to consider finally reinstating Pete Rose. I believe that Rose should be reinstated, only for the purpose of induction to the Hall of Fame. He should be barred from managing and anything to do with the day to day operations of a team, however to me the Hall of Fame is about the greatest to ever play the game, and Pete Rose is one of them. When they change the name to the Baseball Honor Society I will have a different opinion. Until then I say Pete Rose is a Hall of Famer for what he did ON the field as a player, but I fear that even after a possible reinstatement the egos of the baseball writers association will still not elect him.