03-12-2006, 04:01 AM
Actually, I admire Pete as a baseball player.
Some great quotes:
"I'd walk through Hell in a gasoline suit just to keep playing ball." -- Pete Rose
"If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete, I'd wear a dress." -- Mickey Mantle
"People practice what they're already good at" --Pete Rose, describing why as a mediocre talent, he could accomplish what he did, compared to other people.
You just CANNOT bet on baseball and expect to be enshrined in the Hall. No way.
As to the Black Sox,
On October 4, 1919, Joe Jackson accepted $5000 from gambler Abe Attell, supposed fix man for Arnold Rothstein. The money was delivered to Jackson by teammate Chick Gandil in a dirty envelope. This was belated and partial payment for Jackson's participation to that point.
Buck Weaver is the guy that was wrongly accused in this scandal. He should not have been banned. He did sit in on the meetings to discuss the fixing of the series but decided not to take part. By *all* accounts, he was the only conspirator who never took a dime from the gamblers or their bagmen, Gandil and Risberg. He was the leading Sox hitter in the 5 thrown games, at .333.
Some great quotes:
"I'd walk through Hell in a gasoline suit just to keep playing ball." -- Pete Rose
"If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete, I'd wear a dress." -- Mickey Mantle
"People practice what they're already good at" --Pete Rose, describing why as a mediocre talent, he could accomplish what he did, compared to other people.
You just CANNOT bet on baseball and expect to be enshrined in the Hall. No way.
As to the Black Sox,
On October 4, 1919, Joe Jackson accepted $5000 from gambler Abe Attell, supposed fix man for Arnold Rothstein. The money was delivered to Jackson by teammate Chick Gandil in a dirty envelope. This was belated and partial payment for Jackson's participation to that point.
Buck Weaver is the guy that was wrongly accused in this scandal. He should not have been banned. He did sit in on the meetings to discuss the fixing of the series but decided not to take part. By *all* accounts, he was the only conspirator who never took a dime from the gamblers or their bagmen, Gandil and Risberg. He was the leading Sox hitter in the 5 thrown games, at .333.