US EditionPete Rose, Shoeless Joe and politics: Baseball and the real world collide more often than we think
- Commissioner Rob Manfred decided in early May 2025 that lifetime bans in baseball expire upon the banned player's death, making them eligible for Hall of Fame induction.
- This followed decades-long bans such as Pete Rose's 1989 gambling ban and Shoeless Joe Jackson's over-century ban for alleged gambling, with Jackson reinstated 74 years after his death.
- Cincinnati, Rose's main team, honored him on Wednesday night despite divided opinions, reflecting baseball’s ongoing clash between myth and real-world controversies.
- Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt called the ruling 'a great day for baseball,' while Marcus Giamatti, son of Rose’s original ban commissioner, called it 'a very dark day for baseball.'
- The decision suggests that baseball must reconcile with its history and adapt as it faces labor disputes, social change, and challenges in a modern sports market.
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Readers sound off on Hall of Fame rules, genocidal violence and Catholic schools
If the ban is lifted, why not let Pete Rose in? Whiting, N.J.: Congrats to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred for removing Pete Rose, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and several others from MLB’s permanently ineligible list. The new rule, just announced, is that the punishment of banned individuals ends “upon the passing of the disciplined individual.” Full disclosure: I was one of the many who thought Rose should be reinstated while he was alive, but in retro…
Field of Dreams ghost conflicted on ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson’s reinstatement
The Ghost of a Hall of Fame baseball player could emerge from the corn during your next “Field of Dreams” viewing. A ghost actor at the movie site is conflicted after the MLB reinstated "Shoeless" Joe Jackson.
Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe and politics: Baseball and the real world collide more often than we think
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The legends of pastoral fields. The detailed history and meticulous attention to continuity. The sight of kids playing ball. The hush that descends when you walk into the Hall of Fame. Each implicitly casts the universe of baseball as a magical land that touches, but maybe isn’t precisely part of, the “real” world in which we live. “The whole history of baseball,” the writer Bernard Malamud once said, “has the quality of mythol…
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