MLB commissioner Rob Manfred removed the lifetime bans from legendary players Pete Rose and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson. The pair are two of baseball's most infamous players. Jackson was part of the ...

One of the standout episodes is "Spider Rose," an adaptation of a short story by sci-fi author Bruce Sterling that appeared in 1996's Schismatrix Plus. The short is set in the Sterling-created ...

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred removed Pete Rose, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and other deceased players from the league’s permanently ineligible list Tuesday. As a result ...

Banning someone from baseball’s Hall of Fame is not a sentence to the electric chair, much as the worshipers of the emerald chessboard like to frame it so. It’s not a guillotine. It’s not ...

Former Phillies star Pete Rose tips his hat to fans during an alumni day event before a baseball game between the Phillies and Nationals on Aug. 7, 2022. AP Many of us longtime baseball people ...

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has removed Pete Rose, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and 14 other dead players from the league's permanently ineligible list. The decision comes 36 years after Rose was ...

Including baseball. Does anyone believe that Major League Baseball would be reinstating Pete Rose if one of the president’s whims had not demanded it? Never mind MLB’s lawyerly rationale that ...