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Originally Posted by Grandstander
There are better grounds for running Cobb out of the HoF than just his crappy personality and violent tendencies. Cobb and Tris Speaker were both hauled before Judge Landis in the mid twenties when it came to light that both had particpated in game fixing schemes for gamblers. Landis decided that the game would be hurt by having two mega stars such as these, kicked out of baseball, so he gave them a pass and covered up the charges. Both players were traded to new teams, both to the A's in fact, jamming that roster with Hall of Famers. (Cobb, Speaker, Grove, Cochrane, Simmons, Foxx)
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I had forgotten about that when I typed my response. Yes, something shady seems to have been going on and Landis was a hypocrite for not dealing more harshly with Cobb and Speaker. But BHA seemed to be singling out Cobb for his personality defects and that was the point I was addressing.
Rapier-Had Rose admitted betting on the Reds while managing and then asked for forgiveness and gotten professional help for his gambling problem, he'd be in the Hall of Fame. Yet he lied and denied and didn't admit it until years had gone by.