Great article from The Wall Street Journal. -LQ

It’s Time for Baseball to Forgive Pete Rose
By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL
March 20, 2015 12:57 p.m. ET

On Monday, Rob Manfred, the new commissioner of Major League Baseball, got a chance to extricate his sport from a deepening moral quandary. Pete Rose, the disgraced onetime star of the Cincinnati Reds, petitioned Mr. Manfred’s office to be reinstated in the sport from which he was barred in 1989 for gambling.

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Mr. Rose’s punishment may have seemed logical three decades ago, in the draconian climate of “Just say no,” “Three strikes and you’re out” and the war on drugs. But in the world we now inhabit—one of steroid use and sports-sponsored gambling—it looks arbitrary and cruel, with about as much claim to our support as throwing someone in the stocks for flouting the Sabbath.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/its-time...ose-1426870646