This is a shocking one since much like Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, the steroid issue will always come up and haunt him. He’s still a great player nonetheless, but if they don’t give him the Hall nod and treat him like Curt Schilling, I’m convinced it’s due to the higher up politics surrounding the MLB.
His issue was gambling, not steroids. I don't think he was accused of using steroids.
Rose was a switch hitter, and is MLB's all-time leader in hits (4,256), games played (3,562), at-bats (14,053), singles (3,215) and outs (10,32.[1] He won three World Series championships, three batting titles, one Most Valuable Player Award, two Gold Glove Awards, and the Rookie of the Year Award. He made 17 All-Star appearances in an unequaled five positions (second baseman, left fielder, right fielder, third baseman, and first baseman). He won two Gold Glove awards when he was an outfielder, in 1969 and 1970.
It's all steroids. You can get pretty swole without steroids but not Yefimchyk swole.
huh
It would surprise everyone else. Shoeless Joe Jackson who would otherwise be a HOF great last played in 1920 after a famous betting scandal. 100+ years later he's still one of the top 50 all time hitters but never going to the HOF. The steroid guys have a better chance because at some point it was not explicitly illegal in baseball and many amphetamine users are already in. Bonds and Clemens especially deserve HOF but the fact remains they cheated and clean players of the era are pissed.
This happened during those player's careers but betting and fixing games was illegal and bannable 60+ years before Rose did it and MLB really discourages this lifetime and beyond.
RIP Ken Page. He also played Old Deuteronomy in the original Broadway and 1998 filmed versions of Cats.
RIP legend who gave us YOU'RE JOKING YOU'RE JOKING meme on ytmnd. He played Oogie in pretty much every thing including Kingdom Hearts.
How long should we wait before we get to rifle through all his stuff? I bet I could sell some of it and make a good profit
Fuck me.....Old Deuteronomy's gone up to the Heaviside Layer at last.
He retired from playing well before the Steroid Era started in the mid-to-late 90's.
My fat, hoarder grandmother loved that show. Maybe they're both somewhere being fat and buying random junk.
That was my first thought too.
I always thought that was excessively harsh. Obviously professional sports, if they're to be taken seriously, can't tolerate even an appearance of impropriety, but the obvious mortal sin here would be to bet against your own team and take a fall. A permanent ban for betting on his own team to win has always struck me as utter bullshit.
I feel like the only downside of Cats 1998 is how they cut out "Growltiger's Last Stand" to keep it under two hours when it was one of my favourite parts when I actually saw Cats on stage.
