Commissioner Rob Manfred’s decision Tuesday to remove Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, among others, from baseball’s permanently ineligible list was a requisite first step toward these two legends of the game potentially being enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

Rose was banned from baseball in 1989 after betting on games while playing for and managing the Cincinnati Reds.

Pete Rose and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson are now both eligible for baseball's Hall of Fame after their careers were tarnished by sports gambling scandals.