Major League Baseball on Tuesday removed Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, two of the sport’s most famous players who were previously kicked out of baseball for gambling on the game, from the league’s permanently ineligible list.

Rose had been banned from baseball since a ruling from commissioner Bart Giamatti back in 1989 following an investigation that confirmed Rose gambled on baseball games while a manager of the Cincinnati Reds in the '80s. Rose died in September of 2024, and the discourse began again about whether the ban continued after death.