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Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred ended the lifetime bans of several deceased former major leaguers on Tuesday. Among those reinstated were two of the best hitters in the history of baseball,
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Pete Rose is finally out of MLB’s doghouse, and he has some company. Rose, placed on the league’s permanently ineligible list in August 1989 over gambling on baseball, was reinstated by commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday — and was joined by “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, according to ESPN.
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.
ESPN remains interested in a potential Major League Baseball distribution package, especially one that includes streaming local games, despite recently opting out of its national package with the league three years early,