After decades of controversy and exclusion, Major League Baseball has lifted Pete Rose’s lifetime ban, opening the Hall of Fame doors for one of the game’s most passionate and prolific legends.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred Tuesday reinstated disgraced baseball great Pete Rose and other deceased players on MLB's permanently ineligible list. Manfred's decision, announced in a letter to the Rose family's lawyer,

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred removed Pete Rose, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and several other former players from the permanently ineligible list on Tuesday, paving the way for those players to earn a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame.