In an absolutely stunning decision, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has reversed the lifetime bans that would prevent ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson and Pete Rose from being voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Rose and Jackson had been placed on the ‘permanently ineligible’ list to be enshrined in Cooperstown by MLB for decades due to accusations of gambling on their own team’s games.
Now, both Jackson and Rose are set to potentially be voted into the Hall of Fame after years of petitioning to allow either of them to be included.
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