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Pitcher Trevor Bauer will take any opening he can get to lambast Major League Baseball for not giving him another chance.
The move means Rose and Jackson could now be considered for inclusion in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Rose and Jackson were both involved in sports betting controversies. Rose was found to have violated MLB’s Rule 21, which bars players from betting on the game and was placed on the ineligible list in 1989.
NEW YORK (AP) — Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Tuesday that Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson and other players permanently banned by the sport would have their statuses restored at death.
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It was more than 100 years ago that Shoeless Joe Jackson was among eight Black Sox banned from baseball for throwing the 1919 World Series. It’s been more than 35 years since Pete Rose suffered the same fate after betting on the sport as a player and manager of the Cincinnati Reds in the mid-1980s.