MLB, Shoeless Joe Jackson and Pete Rose
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MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has removed Pete Rose, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and 14 other dead players from the league's permanently ineligible list. The decision comes 36 years after Rose was initially banned and 104 years after Jackson was banned.
Pete Rose and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson are now both eligible for baseball's Hall of Fame after their careers were tarnished by sports gambling scandals.
MLB's all-time Hit King, 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson removed from ineligible list in a stunning turn in one of sport’s longest-running dramas.