I didn't know that the number one rule in baseball was to not gamble on games. In my opinion, using a corked bat, or throwing a game intentionally are worse than gambling.
Is it 100% sure that he only gambled on those games while he was a coach? If so, then even if he did gamble on his own team as a coach. What could he have done to change the outcome of the games he gambled on? Nothing. Now if he was playing the games he gambled on, and then changed they way he played, then that could be grounds for the punishment he recieved.
Basically, I think he should be allowed in the hall of fame, pending whether he was a coach or a player when he made his bets. Go Pete.
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