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.

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."

Subscribe to Baseball Bar-B-Cast Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Pete Rose is now Hall of Fame eligible. Commissioner Manfred made a huge rule change, Tuesday, which now reinstates Rose and makes him eligible for 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,

The Reds are handing out a replica No. 14 Rose jersey to fans in attendance for their game against the White Sox.