The only reason he hasn't is because he was an asshole. Both him & Shoeless Joe need to go in. But Beltran gets to go in because he kissed massive amounts of ass. Give me a break.
No, MLB knew that Pete fucked a 14 year-old girl. So all parties agreed that Pete doesn’t get into the HOF, and MLB doesn’t let out that Pete fucked a 14 year old.
Cap Anson was the whole reason the color barrier exists and he's in the hall of fame, OJ Simpson murdered two people and his bust is still in Canton, Ohio, Babe Ruth was a drunken whoremonger, the recently-inducted Andruw Jones is a wifebeater. If you start barring people from the hall-of-fame for non-sports related reasons, you're basically only going to be able to induct 5 guys at most, all-time.
Shoeless Joe conspired to throw the World Series. And yes, he was 100% guilty, however his apologists try to spin it. It's an entirely different level of guilt. If he doesn't deserve a lifetime ban, nobody does.
Yes because a then-record 12 hits, the only home run in that World Series are the actions of a guy trying to throw the series. \s
He only took the money because it was the mob in 1919 Chicago, and if he didn't, they'd have killed him. The actual guilty parties later admitted that Shoeless Joe was never involved in any of the meetings, and the "confession" was a bogus one the illiterate Jackson was made to sign by Comiskey's lawyer which was a clear conflict-of-interest, it should've been thrown out of court.
There's been a lot of debate as to when he collected his hits (not all the games were fixed, and he hit .286 in the games the Sox lost); he's also been suspected of playing poorly in the outfield and running the bases badly. But even if he did play exclusively to win, as he alleged, that just makes him a grifter who two-timed his fellow crooks. He was a massive liar, and nothing he said can be taken at face value.
The rest of your post is nonsense. Jackson confessed in detail in open court, and his fellow conspirators did not clear him. Here's a good overview of the facts:
So in other words, nothing but pure conjecture, and that confession should've been thrown out because of the conflict-of-interest of his legal counsel. False confessions are procured all the time, the idea of an illiterate man who left school to work before he was a teenager being some kind of machiavellian schemer is ridiculous. The only evidence against Jackson is pure statistical conjecture by jaded cynics like you. No smoking gun, bogus confession, not guilty.
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The only reason he hasn't is because he was an asshole. Both him & Shoeless Joe need to go in. But Beltran gets to go in because he kissed massive amounts of ass. Give me a break.