Pete Rose is officially off MLB's ineligible list and has a clear path to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, assuming Cooperstown actually wants him.
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred ended a decades-long saga on Tuesday by announcing he will reinstate all deceased members of baseball's ineligible list, reversing the decisions that prevented Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson and several others from entering the Hall of Fame. The decision reversed Manfred's own prior decisions that specifically turned down reinstatement for both Rose and Jackson.
It is generally known that Rose was kept out of the Hall of Fame because he bet on baseball while serving as manager of the Cincinnati Reds, but the story is much more complicated than some realize.