Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred removed Pete Rose, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson” and other deceased players from the league’s permanently ineligible list. The ruling allows Rose, Jackson and the others to now be eligible for election into the Baseball Hall Of Fame.
Manfred said the MLB’s punishment of banned individuals ends upon their deaths since they can no longer represent a threat to the integrity of the game.
Rose was banned in 1989 after an MLB investigation determined he bet on games while the manager of the Cincinnati Reds. Jackson and seven other Chicago White Sox players were banned for life in 1921 after it was determined they fixed the 1919 World Series.
Rose, Jackson and the other players will first be eligible for the Hall Of Fame in 2028.
PETE ROSE: “What good would it do my family if they put me in the hall Fame after I die?”
