My thesis statement is-Pete Rose was a legend in the game of baseball but was banned from it in 1989 for illegal gambling. Because of the life-time ban, one of the greatest players of all time will not join the great ranks in the Hall of Fame. Pete Rose’s life-time ban should be lifted and allow him to be inducted in the Hall of Fame because the evidence against him was not substantial, his statistics are more than worthy, and his crime is less to that of some other inductees.