Pete Rose

Throw the bums out of baseball's Hall of Fame Throw the bums out of baseball's Hall of Fame

Bowie Kuhn isn't the only baseball notable who should never have been enshrined in Cooperstown.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Bonds indictment: It's shaping up as a bang-up steroids offseason. Plus: NFL Week 11.
  • 2002: The year in sports

    The thrill of ties and disputed finishes. The agony of scandals, blown calls and moral relativism. Plus: Endless debate.
  • Learning from Bill Buckner

    The Red Sox veteran accepted responsibility for his 1986 World Series gaffe, and he lives with a kind of grace now. Pete Rose and Ann Coulter, listen up.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Steroids have been great for baseball's business, but steroid revelations may be even better.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Pete Rose: Now he says he did bet on baseball, but being Charlie Hustle means never having to say you're sorry.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    On the theology of sports: How Pete Rose can prove the existence of God -- or not, depending on what you already believe.
  • Bring back Charlie Hustle

    Pete Rose is unrepentant and unapologetic, but so what? He's done his time -- and forgiveness is the American way.
  • When it's time to go

    Penn State's Joe Paterno has one more chance to retire gracefully -- even if he doesn't tie Bear Bryant's win record.
  • Keep Shoeless Joe Jackson out of the Hall of Fame!

    "Gambling-related sins must stand at the apex of the disciplinary scale"
  • Shoeless Joe, Hall of Famer

    A pair of South Carolina lawmakers say the "Black Sox" star's lifetime ban from baseball should be lifted. They're right.
  • Hip, hip and away I go!

    There's no need to fear, Al is here! When the going gets tough, the Gores get literal. Plus: Out of the ring into the ring? More on the great WWF migration. And, Scully and Mulder smooch.
  • Letters to the Editor

    If Pete Rose won't fess up, he shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame; why we're chicken-pox party parents.
  • Live through this Saturday night

    Courtney Love's directorial debut -- in glorious plaid! Patenstein? Count Patula? The Wolfpat? Pollsters say Buchanan's more trick than treat.
  • Pete Rose steals the show

    As baseball honors the team of the century at the World Series, the all-time hits leader banned for gambling proves he can't be exiled forever.

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