Baseball Hall of Fame Well, the bone-headed baseball powers-that-be did it. They managed to keep Pete “Charlie Hustle” Rose out of the Baseball Hall of Fame, and now he’s dead as of this Monday, at the age of 83, so no need to worry about Cooperstown moving forward.Rose still remains Major League Baseball’s all-time leader in hits (4,256), but because he bet on baseball games while he was the Reds manager in the mid- to late-1980s, lied when questioned about it, he missed making the Hall of Fame.Biggest caveat to all of this, though, is that Rose never bet that ...