Everyone makes mistakes, and everyone deserves a second chance. Pete Rose deserves a second chance. He put his life into baseball and played it like nobody else.
Rose got the hits as a player, not a coach. He should be in the Hall of Fame as the player he was. Not the coach he became. Betting on his team did not get him those hits. Plus, he bet on his team to win, and he did it after he was done playing!
Most guys in the Hall of Fame have done worse than betting on their teams. Some of them have even worse demons that we overlook and some we do not know about. There would not be very