Nobody ever played more games, collected more hits or generated more passionate opinions than Pete Rose. The history of baseball can’t be told without him, and his memorabilia and records are displayed throughout the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown,

Pete Rose and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson are now both eligible for baseball's Hall of Fame after their careers were tarnished by sports gambling scandals.

Rose agreed to be placed on the permanently ineligible list in 1989, and two years later the Hall of Fame passed a rule stating that those on the permanently ineligible list were not eligible for election into the Hall. As such, Rose has never appeared on a Hall of Fame ballot.