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Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe and politics: Baseball and the real world collide more often than we think
Since the game’s early days, baseball mythology has been constructed — often deliberately — to set itself apart ...
Mike Schmidt: 'There's always going to be the issue of Pete Rose off the field'
Mike Schmidt: "There's a cloud.. ... I think if you posed the question to all the living Hall of Famers right now, I think it ...
Philadelphia Phillies' Legend Weighs in on Pete Rose's Reinstatement and Hall of Fame Chances
Major League Baseball officially reinstated Pete Rose and the members of the 1919 'Black Sox' that had been previously been banned from baseball. Ro ...
Rose and Jackson get posthumous reprieve, but gambling on baseball is still MLB’s biggest sin
It was more than 100 years ago that Shoeless Joe Jackson was among eight Black Sox banned from baseball for throwing the 1919 ...
Mike Schmidt on Pete Rose and the Hall of Fame: ‘There will always be a cloud’
I think the Pete Rose question is always going to be divided, 50-50,” Schmidt said of his late friend and former teammate's ...
Pete Rose is a sure thing for the Baseball Hall of Fame now, right? Not so fast
Pete Rose's reinstatement by MLB surely clears a path for other players, like Barry Bonds, to be inducted into the Baseball ...
Reaction to Pete Rose being reinstated by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred
Reaction to Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson being reinstated by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, making them eligible ...
Pete Rose reinstated off MLB's permanently ineligible list: Mike Schmidt, former teams, others react
A total of 17 players are no longer banned from baseball as a result of MLB commissioner Rob Manfred's decision ...