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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WVUALLEN" data-source="post: 132041852" data-attributes="member: 1112294">Whitey Ford is still in the Baseball Hall of Fame even though he's confessed to cheating.The Black Sox scandal of 1919 remains a seminal moment in baseball's history. Eight players for the Chicago White Sox were accused of taking bribes to throw the World Series. All eight were banned from baseball (despite never actually being convicted of the crimes), and baseball brought in a tough commissioner (Kenesaw Mountain Landis) to oversee the game. However, there's one man who never suffered despite his obvious role in the scandal — Hall of Fame owner Charles Comiskey.Baseball has always had some form of hypocrisy when it comes to its exalted heroes. In theory, when it comes to these kinds of votes, it’s true that character should matter, but once you’ve already let in Ty Cobb, how can you exclude anyone else?Cobb, along with his fellow Hall of Famer Tris Speaker, were also implicated in a game-fixing scheme. Pitcher Gaylord Perry had a disregard for the rules that was far more patent and unashamed than any steroid user. Perry doctored baseballs with spit, Vaseline and other substances to confound hitters. All of baseball knew what Perry was doing even if he never admitted it until writing a tell-all book after his retirement.Players have confessed to serious use of illicit recreational drugs such as Paul Molitor. Or had racetrack gambling issues like Rogers Hornsby. And Wade Boggs after an extramarital affair was exposed during his playing days, announced to Barbara Walters on national television that he was a sex addict.As Thorn, the historian, points out, the earliest major league baseball players were disrespected, often treated like circus performers or prostitutes.“They would be turned away from hotels,” Thorn said. “They were not considered fit for polite company. And now, today, here they are heroes and role models.”Orlando Cepeda, imprisoned on a drug charge in the 1970s, was voted into the Hall of Fame in 1999.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.grunge.com/172690/athletes-caught-cheating-on-live-tv/[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/sports/baseball/baseball-hall-of-fame-has-always-made-room-for-infamy.html[/URL]</blockquote>

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