Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred took a major step on Tuesday in allowing both Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson into the baseball Hall of Fame.
Manfred officially removed Rose and Jackson, and all other deceased players, from MLB’s permanently ineligible list on Tuesday. Manfred ruled that the league’s punishment of banned individuals now officially ends after their deaths.
"Obviously, a person no longer with us cannot represent a threat to the integrity of the game," Manfred wrote in a letter to attorney Jeffrey M. Lenkov, who petitioned for Rose's removal from the list earlier this year.