Possible 14 wasn't just Pete Rose's jersey number.

[DanOregon]

The weird thing about it - if he stayed under the radar and didn't make a stink about MLB allowing fans to bet on the games (while making money on it) they pretty much would have opened the door for him into Cooperstown.

 

[britwrit]

In all fairness, Roman Polanski and Edgar Allen Poe probably aren't going to be in Cooperstown either.

 

[LanceyHoward]

Current law in Florida is that sexual intercourse with someone under 18 is illegal if the other party is over 24. If Florida law was similar in the 70's, then Rose, who was born in 1941 and would have been in his 30's, is still guilty if the woman was under 18. What is incredible is that Rose sued Dowd for slander for saying the woman was under 16. I guess in Rose's mind 16 is fine and 15 is not.

 

[Webster]

I knew his guest appearances on The Baseball Bunch would end badly.

Court documents say the girl caught Mr. Rose's attention as she would, after school, "run from the front door to the school bus while others would walk".

Charley likes hustle.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

 

[LanceyHoward]

Wow. Shocked to learn Charlie Hustle was always a scumbag. Stunned.
There will still be braying "morans," unabashedly supporting his HOF aspirations.

I remember that the 70's Reds did not their allow their players to wear facial hair and prided themselves on their clean-cut, wholesome image as compared to the hirsute, argumentative A's. The front office must have have some idea of what Rose was up to. It is hard to believe this woman was Rose's only teenage conquest. And I would think that some of Rose's associates would have raised eyebrows. While is won't be the first or last time an organization has been massively hypocritical it still makes me chuckle.

 

[dixiehack]

That ban on facial hair lasted through 1998.

 

[tapintoamerica]

I thought it was silly for the team to enshrine a guy who only played 5 years for them. And it is. But it turns out that the Phillies have no standard of service time with the team. Among their Hall of Famers are Sparky Anderson and Ryne Sandberg, both of whom played one year with the team.

 

[BTExpress]

Yeah, but Rose saved the pop-up that Bob Boone botched, without which I believe they would have gone and choked Game 6.

 

[Sea Bass]

I thought it was silly for the team to enshrine a guy who only played 5 years for them. And it is. But it turns out that the Phillies have no standard of service time with the team. Among their Hall of Famers are Sparky Anderson and Ryne Sandberg, both of whom played one year with the team.

The Blue Jays have retired Robbie Alomar's number and would have you believe he played for only them, even though he played less than 30% of his career games in a Toronto uniform.

 

[Starman]

Of all the sleazy stuff surrounding Rose, the Phillies including him in all time honors is pretty far down the list. He was a key player for a championship team; that's plenty good enough.

And still an all-around general scumbucket.

 

[mpcincal]

I thought it was silly for the team to enshrine a guy who only played 5 years for them. And it is. But it turns out that the Phillies have no standard of service time with the team. Among their Hall of Famers are Sparky Anderson and Ryne Sandberg, both of whom played one year with the team.

It may have only been five years, but I thought Rose had quite an impact on the team while he was there. I was just a kid, but the Phillies seemed to have the reputation as a good team that couldn't win the big one, and they won the World Series the second year he was there and made it to the Series again in 1983. Him being honored by the Phillies doesn't seem strange to me at all.