Rapaire: NO "Black Sox" are in the HOF. Shoeless Joe Jackson, the best of the bunch and big naive country boy (from what we're told) has been denied entrance only because he knew about his teammates' plot and didn't rat them out. His stellar performance in the 1919 series iindiates that he did *nothing* to throw any game. But, like they say, the good have to suffer with the bad in a case like that

I hated Rose as a player, and only gradually developed a grudging admisration for his accomplishments. I think the comparison to Ty Cobb is very apt. Nevertheless, I would put him in the Hall of Fame if it was up to me. I'd put Joe Jackson in posthumously, too.