Former MLB legends "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Pete Rose shockingly were reinstated by league commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday. Jackson and Rose were two of 17 deceased individuals reinstated by MLB, as Manfred noted MLB's punishment of banned players ends upon their death.

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred's recent ruling makes 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson and seven other previously banned Chicago White Sox players eligible for Hall of Fame consideration.

Jackson and seven other members of the 1919 White Sox were permanently banned from baseball, accused of taking bribes from gamblers to intentionally lose the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds.

Pete Rose, who was banished from Major League Baseball for gambling on the game, has been removed from the league's permanently ineligible list and could be a contender for the Hall of Fame, MLB announced Tuesday.

It was more than 100 years ago that Shoeless Joe Jackson was among eight Black Sox banned from baseball for throwing the 1919 World Series. It's been more than 35 years since Pete Rose suffered the same fate after betting on the sport as a player and manager of the Cincinnati Reds in the mid-1980s.