Originally Posted By: pizzaboy
"I am not a role model."---- Charles Barkley.

That's the best quote ever. If Pete Rose doesn't belong in the Hall of Fame, no one does.

Does anyone think Mickey Mantle should be thrown out because he was an alcoholic and a lousy father and family man?

No. Because moralists have selective memories. Put him in.


mickey mantle never threw games. no yankee ever did.

pete rose did. and that is where the difference lies.


" watch what you say around this guy, he's got a big mouth" sam giancana to an outfit soldier about frank Sinatra. [ from the book "my way"