Pete Rose And The Hall Of Fame

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make him one of the greatest players in Major League Baseball history.
Numerous baseball players come to mind when thinking about players who have committed crimes and done things against the law. For example, one of them is Ty Cobb. Ty Cobb's baseball records are also astounding compared to Pete Rose. While in his playing career, Ty Cobb admitted to killing a man. Cobb was walking down the street when a man supposedly jumped him with a knife. Cobb, who pulled out a gun, couldn't make it fire, so the man slit him up the back with his knife. The man then fled into a dead-end alley where Cobb beat him to death with the gun. "I used that gun sight to rip and slash and tear him for about ten minutes until he had no face left. Left him there, not breathing, in his own blood," Cobb once said. Cobb was also accused of fixing a Detroit-Cleveland game back on September 25, 1919. Cobb, Tris Speaker, Hubert "Dutch" Leonard and Joe Wood wagered $5,500 on the game because they knew the ...

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