Non basketball news- Major League Baseball lifts ban on Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson

Major League Baseball has lifted the ban and reinstated Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson

Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson were reinstated by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday, making both eligible for the sport’s Hall of Fame after their careers were tarnished by sports gambling scandals.
Rose’s permanent ban was lifted eight months after his death and came a day before the Cincinnati Reds will honor baseball’s career hits leader with Pete Rose Night.
Manfred announced Tuesday that he was changing the league’s policy on permanent ineligibility, saying bans would expire at death. MLB said 17 individuals had their status changed by the decision, including all eight banned members of the 1919 Chicago Black Sox, former Philadelphia Phillies president Williams D. Cox and former New York Giants outfielder Benny Kauff.

Does anyone think this is a bad idea? If so, I understand.
I think it's good. The bans served their purpose and penalized those players enormously. But it's time to move on and recognize them for the good they accomplished, IMO.

Btw, I also think it's about time Bradley finally retire Squeaky Melchiorre's number and put him in the Hall of Fame. I had a couple conversations with past BU President Gary Roberts about Squeaky, and heard all sides of that issue. He was not personally opposed to lifting the ban on Squeaky, but the academic side of Bradley was strongly opposed, and he did not want to inflame them. With the new administration, maybe that might change, too.

I agree. It is time to move forward. I do think in time there will be reconsideration for other baseball players: Sosa, McGwire, and Bonds.
I’m not sure about Lance Armstrong.

guys like Rose, Shoeless Joe, Squeaky did not gain an advantage on the field/court,
the other guys did, so their HOF accomplishments come into question.

What’s interesting about Pete Rose going to prison is that most people thought it was because of his gambling. It was for tax evasion, not declaring cash payments signing baseball cards. He served 5 months in Marion prison and 1000 hours of community service. I always enjoyed watching him play

Because his career was more than 100 years ago (1908-1920), most baseball fans today don't realize how great of a player Shoeless Joe Jackson was. His career stats are in the link below. His career batting average was .356, which is the 3rd highest career average of all time, exceeded only by Ty Cobb (.366) and Rogers Hornsby (.359). His career was cut short by being banned from baseball after the 1920 season while just 32 and still in his prime. He hit .382 his final season.
Stats- https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jacksjo01.shtml

And his guilt in the 1919 White Sox gambling scandal is still in disputed to this day. He denied taking any money or throwing any games. He was acquitted of any wrongdoing by a jury in a famous 1921 trial, but the new baseball Commissioner, Kennesaw Mountain Landis, banned Jackson and seven teammates for life anyway.