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If Baseball's Hall of Fame is to have any meaning, its best players shouldn't be denied entrance for reasons having nothing ...
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred reinstated Pete Rose and the players involved in the Chicago Black Sox scandal. That reinstatement means that Rose, baseball’s all-time hit leader, is finally eligible for ...
Commissioner Rob Manfred tells MLB owners Trump "was one of a number of voices" supporting his eventual decision to remove ...
Manfred reinstated 17 other banned players as well, including members of the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox who threw the World Series, including the team’s star “Shoeless” Joe Jackson.
The reinstatement was an obvious sop to the gambling industry, an MLB partner, and possibly also to President Donald Trump, who lobbied for Rose’s future election into the Hall of Fame.
His reinstatement of Rose and Jackson is no exception: History has become an irrelevant triviality — ignored or, even better, forgotten.
Shoeless Joe’s saga got second billing Tuesday after Pete Rose’s reinstatement from his long and storied battle to get into the Hall. Recency bias was no doubt at play, but Jackson’s story ...
Major League Baseball has removed Pete Rose and other deceased players from MLB’s permanently ineligible list, an extraordinary twist to a saga that has gone on for more than three decades. The ...
Shoeless Joe’s saga got second billing Tuesday after Pete Rose’s reinstatement from his long and storied battle to get into the Hall. Recency bias was no doubt at play, but Jackson’s story ...
Reactions are pouring in as “Shoeless” Joe Jackson is now being reinstated by Major League Baseball. This comes more than 70 years after his death.
Shoeless Joe Jackson: The Black Sox Scandal and a Lingering Question of Innocence For “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, who died in 1951, the reinstatement addresses a ban that has been debated for over ...