Shoeless Joe Jackson, yes. There's absolutely no evidence that he threw the game; Landis just wanted to make a brutal example.
Rose is another story; he bet on baseball as a player and as a manager. No fucking way does he deserve the HOF.
On another note (and please, for the love of fucking fate, don't make this political), Schilling should've made the Hall. If violent racists like Cobb made the Hall, Schilling should be in.
Bet on baseball? yes. However, repeated investigations have showed he only ever bet on himself.
Also, multiple forensic analyses have shown that Rose in no way altered his managing style or decisions based on any bets placed. He didn't overuse the bullpen or force starters to pitch longer or increase the number of pinch hitters.
So if the heart of the rule is that they want the integrity of the game maintained AND they now have scientific proof that Rose never violated the integrity of the game (no game was played any differently whether bets were placed or not, thus no altered outcomes), then it's a moot point.
Also, the Commish was willing to put him on a path to reinstatement which meant that if he'd jumped through hoops, they'd let him in... and Rose eventually gave up the "apology tour" and baseball just sat back only too happy to say, "see, he doesn't want it"
It's all bullshit.
MLB can't seriously keep Rose out when his betting never affected a single game and be trying to figure out how to get all the blatant steroid users IN to the HoF.
Baseball was the first love of my life and I left her long ago for this capricious shit. Well, that and the strike zone was a myth for decades... The first time I saw that Fox cam with the strike zone outlined... I laughed out loud... The way the umps bitched and moaned about it... only to watch how they were calling strikes a full 6 inches out of the zone or NOT calling strikes clearly in... yeah...
Anyway, respectfully disagree about Rose.
I dunno about Schilling. If he was just a racist asshole, then yeah, he should get in because being a good person was never a requirement before and Ty Cobb is all you need to say on that. But didn't he also use PEDs?
Cuz that's the line for me. PEDs are even worse in baseball because they use them to increase recovery and the 162 game slog is part of the difficulty of the game. We saw that with Bonds. Dude hit everything a mile. They start testing him after his suspension and all of a sudden, he barely plays in 60 games and doesn't hit HRs, extra base hits or even overall batting percentage even close to before?
In football, there are plenty of examples of PEDs actually causing more harm than good (torn ligaments and all sorts of issues which further create strain between muscles and tendons)