First of all, baseball is a sport, a hobby, entertainment.....it is not curing cancer or teaching young children to read. The Hall of Fame is simply a place where the best in the sport of baseball are held to a high honor because of how good they were when they played the game.....not how moral. I am sure that there are other HOFers that have also broken rules, but they have never been "caught". There are also HOFers that having the biggest ego's you could imagine and are quite frankly not good people. But they ALL, including Pete Rose, deserve to be in the HOF because of what they accomplished statisticly in the game. To be in the HOF does not mean you are a good person, that you were a good husband or father, that you were a good friend to anyone....it simply means that you were good at baseball. Pete Rose has some of the best statistics, in almost every category. He played the game well. His name should be in the HOF. IMO - I also don't think that you should have to be reinstated to the game of baseball to be in the HOF. He should be in the HOF but never be reinstated. I don't trust him to manage or be in any authority position in baseball. I also think his name should not have an * or any other word before it. Just Pete Rose, Hall of Famer.