All right, some big news in the baseball world tonight. After previously being banned,

the late Pete Rose and shoeless Joe Jackson are now eligible to be inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame.

That's after being reinstated by Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred.

The two players were both tainted by scandal in a memoir.

Rose admitted to betting on games,

including those he managed, while Jackson and seven other teammates were banned for allegedly

fixing the World Series back in 1919, dubbing the team The Black Sox.

For a closer look, we're joined now by Howard Bryant of ESPN.

Howard, it's always great to see you.

So for the unfamiliar,

let's start with a little bit of a history lesson. Remind us why Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe were

until today unable to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Well, the reason is because they were put

on the ineligible list by Major League Baseball, which essentially means that

once you're on that list, it means you are ineligible from being voted on by the writers for the

Hall of Fame or being considered by the Veterans Committee, which are the two ways to be inducted

into the hall. And in 1991, when Pete Rose had, was banned, this rule was put into place

because he was so popular that the idea was that baseball believed that the voters were going to

vote for him anyway. So Joe Jatson had been voted on for the hall a couple of times back

in the 30s, but in 1936,

1937, but the ineligible list has been going on since 1991, and ever since then,

Rose has not even been allowed to be voted on. So today is a day where he will have an opportunity

in two years to be inducted.

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