The Hit King's Hall of Fame Induction Day should have been 17 years ago this month.
Aug. 2, 1992. We would never have forgotten it.
Tom Seaver would have been there. Rollie Fingers would have been there. Hal Newhouser would have been there. It was their Induction Day, too. But everyone knows that, had the act of gambling never been invented, it would have been the Hit King's day.
Pete Rose had that way. Always had that way. He owned every room he ever entered. He was the magnetic force who stole every spotlight.
You couldn't convince your eyes to stop watching him play baseball. Your ears never got tired of listening to him speak the language of baseball.
At the age of 68, Pete Rose continues to be on the outside looking in at the Hall of Fame.
So why are we still talking about him all these years later? That's why. Because Pete Rose was the most mesmerizing baseball figure of our lifetimes.
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