"Absolutely pathetic they waited for Pete Rose to pass away before giving him his day in the sun," Gary Sheffield Jr. tweeted. "Reprehensible."

Baseball history entered a new chapter this week. Baseball’s late controversial all-time hit king Pete Rose has been taken off the permanently ineligible list. We speak with longtime ESPN announcer and anchor Karl Ravech about what it means for Cooperstown.

Pete Rose is finally out of MLB’s doghouse, and he has some company. Rose, placed on the league’s permanently ineligible list in August 1989 over gambling on baseball, was reinstated by commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday — and was joined by “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, according to ESPN.

Mike Schmidt: "There's a cloud.. ... I think if you posed the question to all the living Hall of Famers right now, I think it would almost be 50-50."

Pete Rose reinstated, Paul Skenes joins Team USA & and a wild Tuesday night across the MLB. Jake and Jordan have a lot of thoughts about everything that happened on a hectic Tuesday. Take a mid-week break and come on over to the Baseball Bar-B-Cast.

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.

Marty Brennaman: "(Pete Rose) dies and dammit, five months later they elect to make him eligible again. I've got a real problem with that."

A total of 17 players are no longer banned from baseball as a result of MLB commissioner Rob Manfred's decision