Pete Rose's reinstatement has baseball fans in uproar
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NEW YORK (AP) — Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Tuesday that Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson and other players permanently banned by the sport would have their statuses restored at death.
ESPN broadcaster Karl Ravech spoke about MLB's possible motivations for the removal of Pete Rose, among others, off the permanently ineligible list.
Pete Rose, 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson and 14 others were posthumously removed from MLB's ineligible list, making Hall of Fame induction possible for all of them.
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It was more than 100 years ago that Shoeless Joe Jackson was among eight Black Sox banned from baseball for throwing the 1919 World Series. It’s been more than 35 years since Pete Rose suffered the same fate after betting on the sport as a player and manager of the Cincinnati Reds in the mid-1980s.
Pete Rose was taken off Major League Baseball's permanently ineligible list, but one former player doesn't want him in the Hall of Fame.
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