MLB commissioner Rob Manfred sent shockwaves through the baseball world by removing Pete Rose, AKA the Hit King, from the league's permanently ineligible list.

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Manfred, while ruling that the permanent ineligibility of players ends upon their death, also cleared everyone from the 1919 Black Sox scandal, who deliberately fixed games during the World Series.