{"id":1473006,"date":"2022-01-29T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1473006"},"modified":"2022-01-29T09:32:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T14:32:02","slug":"pete-rose-can-thank-former-nba-star-david-thompson-massive-pay-raise-in-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/pete-rose-can-thank-former-nba-star-david-thompson-massive-pay-raise-in-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Rose Can Thank Former NBA Star David Thompson for Massive Pay Raise in 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Major League Baseball's all-time hits leader Pete Rose<\/a> made $7,000 as a rookie with the Cincinnati Reds in 1963. After winning Rookie of the Year, his pay was bumped up to $12,500. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rose, who is banned from the Baseball Hall of Fame<\/a> over gambling issues, didn't get his massive payday until the 1979 season when the Philadelphia Phillies signed him. He can thank former Denver Nuggets star David Thompson<\/a> for the significant bump in pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pete Rose is just one of the biggest baseball stars not in the Hall of Fame<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Bench coach George Scherger (L) and player\/manager Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds look on from the dugout during a Major League Baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Three Rivers Stadium circa 1985 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | George Gojkovich\/Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Baseball Hall of Fame continues to embarrass itself after its latest round of voting. Only David Ortiz earned his ticket to Cooperstown this year, one year after the BBWAA voters didn't vote anyone in the previous year. The writers left out all-time home run leader Barry Bonds, seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens,<\/a> and big-time names such as Alex Rodriguez, Curt Schilling, and Manny Ramirez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of those players were tied to baseball's steroids scandal. Schilling, however, saw his vote total plummet from 71.1% of the votes last year to 58.6% this year simply because he's opinionated and isn't perceived by some as a good guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonds, Schilling, and Clemens have failed to get in the last 10 years and will now be off the ballot. Rose isn't eligible because he is banned from baseball after betting on games when he was a manager. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Baseball Hall of Fame should be renamed the Good Person Hall of Fame. It's embarrassing to not include baseball's all-time leader in hits and home runs. The best players are left out. Rose, along with other players above, needs to have a place in Cooperstown, whether it includes an asterisk or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pete Rose can thank David Thompson for his huge payday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Michael Jordan talking about David Thompson\u2019s leaping abilty! pic.twitter.com\/938AbHyr1b<\/a><\/p>— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) July 20, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>