The most important implication of Manfred's decision has to do with the Baseball Hall of Fame. Pursuant to Rose's placement on the permanently ineligible list, the Hall in 1991 ruled that players on that list could not be elected into the Hall of Fame.

Marty Brennaman: "(Pete Rose) dies and dammit, five months later they elect to make him eligible again. I've got a real problem with that."

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has posthumously removed the disgraced Cincinnati Reds legend and the outfielder caught up in the Black Sox scandal from the permanently ineligible list.