Pete Rose and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson are now both eligible for baseball's Hall of Fame after their careers were tarnished by sports gambling scandals.

Rose played left field more than any of his other positions and his 79.6 career WAR ranks fifth all-time among left fielders, trailing Barry Bonds (162.8), Ted Williams (121.8), Rickey Henderson (111.2) and Carl Yastrzemski (96.5).

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.

In a stunning reversal of decades-long policy, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced today a sweeping decision to remove deceased players, including the legendary Shoeless Joe Jackson,