Former MLB legends "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Pete Rose shockingly were reinstated by league commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday. Jackson and Rose were two of 17 deceased individuals reinstated by MLB, as Manfred noted MLB's punishment of banned players ends upon their death.

Jackson and seven other members of the 1919 White Sox were permanently banned from baseball, accused of taking bribes from gamblers to intentionally lose the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds.

There’s a lot of disbelief,” said great-great nephew Joseph Raymond Jackson. “I didn't think I'd ever live to see this day happen."

For decades, Pete Rose’s legacy was split in two—on one side, the game’s all-time hits leader with 4,256 knocks. And on the other side, a man exiled from the sport he helped define. And now, eight months after his death,