Perhaps. But the commissioner’s action throws a revealing light on American politics and class sociology. What the story is all about is not the other 16 players — all more or less forgotten ...

Pete Rose is officially off MLB's ineligible list and has a clear path to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, assuming Cooperstown actually wants him. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred ended a decades ...

Mike Schmidt campaigned for Pete Rose’s election to the Hall of Fame during his induction speech in 1995. (Mark D. Phillips / AFP via Getty Images) ...

Joe Jackson and Pete Rose will no longer be banned from the Baseball Hall of Fame. The decision is likely rooted in the sport’s surrender to the gambling-addiction economy.

Rose remains baseball’s all-time hit king, with his mark of 4,256 career hits seen as one of the sport’s most unbreakable records. NEWSLETTERS Emailed Daily.