Former MLB legends ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson and Pete Rose shockingly were reinstated by league commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday.

Jackson and Rose were two of 17 deceased individuals reinstated by MLB, as Manfred noted MLB’s punishment of banned players ends upon their death.

The move allows for Jackson and Rose (the all-time hits leader) to both be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The two were previously viewed as stains on the game, based on their gambling participation during their playing careers.

Jackson was banned from baseball in 1921, along with seven other Chicago White Sox players, for fixing the 1919 World Series. He ranks fourth in MLB history in batting average (.356).

Here’s everything to know about Jackson, who might be headed to the Hall of Fame over 100 years after his playing career ended:

Who was ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson?

Jackson was an MLB outfielder from 1908-20, but was most known for his time with the White Sox. He won the 1917 World Series with Chicago but was also a part of one of MLB’s most well-known controversies.

Jackson played 12 MLB seasons, primarily in the outfield. He was one of the best contact hitters ever, with a career line of .356/.423/.517. His best seasons came with Cleveland from 1910-15, and he also played for the Philadelphia Athletics (1908-09) and the White Sox (1915-20).

Jackson is also a notable character in the baseball movie ‘Field of Dreams,’ and is depicted by Ray Liotta.

Why was ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson banned?

Jackson, along with seven of his teammates, were banned from MLB after the 1920 season for attempting to fix the 1919 World Series. The players were accused of accepting $5,000 each to purposefully lose the series.

The White Sox players were actually acquitted by a Chicago jury but were banned from MLB anyway by the league’s first commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Jackson had 12 hits in the series, a record that wasn’t broken until 1964. He also wasn’t charged with an error.

‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson stats

Here are Jackson’s career stats in 12 MLB seasons:

Career: 62.2 WAR, 1,772 hits with 54 home runs, 873 runs, 792 RBIs and 202 stolen bases. .356 batting average with .423 on-base percentage and .517 slugging percentage.

Who were the 17 reinstated individuals?

➤ Pete Rose: All-time hits leader was permanently banned in 1989.

➤ Black Sox: Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were permanently suspended by commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis in 1921 for conspiring with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. Those players were pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Lefty Williams, outfielder Happy Felsch, first baseman Chick Gandil, shortstop Swede Risberg, third baseman Buck Weaver, utility infielder Fred McMullin, and ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson, one of the greatest hitters in baseball history.

➤ Joe Gedeon: A member of the St. Louis Browns at the time of the Black Sox scandal, Gedeon was present during meetings between gamblers and the aforementioned White Sox players.

➤ Gene Paulette: Once the Black Sox scandal ruling was made by Landis, Paulette was retroactively suspended permanently from the game for allegedly receiving gifts from gamblers to throw games while playing for the Philadelphia Phillies.

➤ Benny Kauff: Banned by Landis, despite being acquitted by a jury, for allegedly stealing a car. It seems Landis, a former judge, had made up his mind — despite the jury’s decision — that Kauff was guilty.

➤ Lee Magee: Magee and the notorious Hal Chase — who was a fine baseball player in his own right, but also had a reputation for allegedly conspiring with gamblers — were accused of throwing a game while Magee’s Chicago Cubs played Chase’s Philadelphia Phillies. It should be noted that Chase was not among the 17 individuals reinstated by Manfred.

➤ Phil Douglas: Landis permanently suspended Douglas for writing a letter offering to desert his New York Giants — due to quarrels with feisty manager John McGraw — and hurt his team’s pennant-winning chances in 1922.

➤ Jimmy O’Connell: While playing for the Giants in 1924, O’Connell offered an opposing player $500 to throw games in order to help his Giants win the pennant.

➤ Cozy Dolan: Dolan was a coach on O’Connell’s Giants and also was suspended as part of O’Connell’s attempt to bribe a Phillies player to throw games.

➤ William Cox: Cox’s tenure as owner of the Phillies was brief. After buying the team in March 1943, Cox was indefinitely suspended by Landis in November 1943 for placing bets on his own team.

Pete Rose is, somewhat stunningly, off Major League Baseball’s permanently ineligible list.

But that doesn’t mean he’s automatically in the Hall of Fame.

Casual baseball fans often equated Rose’s ban from baseball – which lasted past his September 2024 death until commissioner Rob Manfred reinstated him Tuesday following pressure from President Donald Trump – with a banishment from Cooperstown’s shrine. But reinstatement doesn’t ensure enshrinement.

Certainly, Hall of Fame officials deferred to MLB with regards to Rose’s eligibility, a procedural choice that kept their hands out of the Rose quagmire for decades. Yet with Rose now eligible, when might fans unbothered by Rose’s many indiscretions see the slap-hitting scourge have his day in Cooperstown?

When will Pete Rose come up for Hall of Fame election?

Per Hall regulations, Rose’s candidacy won’t come up for a couple of years. As a player whose greatest contributions to the game came before 1980, he’ll be under consideration by the 12-person Classic Baseball Committee, a group that also considers candidates from the Negro Leagues and pre-Negro League stars. The group will next vote in December 2027 for induction in July 2028.

While Rose broke Ty Cobb’s all-time hits record in 1985, he played 17 of his 24 seasons before 1980, amassing 3,372 of his 4,256 hits in that span. That puts him in the same bucket as players like Dave Parker, who debuted 10 years after Rose in 1973 and played until 1991, and was elected by the Classic Baseball Committee for enshrinement in July.

How will Rose get on the ballot?

The 2027 ballot for the Classic Baseball Era Committee will be determined by the Historical Overview Committee, a group of 10 baseball historians appointed by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. That group includes eight current or former baseball writers, a university professor and a statistician.

Last year, the committee included Parker, fellow electee Dick Allen, Tommy John, Ken Boyer, John Donaldson, Steve Garvey, Vic Harris and Luis Tiant on the Classic Baseball ballot.

Who will vote on Rose’s candidacy?

Should the committee include Rose in the group of eight Classic Era finalists, his candidacy will be voted on by a 16-member electorate. In 2024, that group was comprised of Hall of Famers Paul Molitor, Joe Torre, Lee Smith, Tony Perez, Eddie Murray and Ozzie Smith, along with Angels owner Arte Moreno, four other baseball executives and five baseball writers and historians.

The committee was chaired by Hall of Fame chairman of the board Jane Forbes Clark.

Clark and the Hall managed to keep a distance from the emotional Rose issue, deferring over the decades to whomever sat in the commissioner’s chair. In a statement Tuesday, Clark said the Hall is prepared to consider Rose’s case.

‘The National Baseball Hall of Fame has always maintained that anyone removed from Baseball’s permanently ineligible list will become eligible for Hall of Fame consideration,’ she said. ‘Major League Baseball’s decision to remove deceased individuals from the permanently ineligible list will allow for the Hall of Fame candidacy of such individuals to now be considered. The Historical Overview Committee will develop the ballot of eight names for the Classic Baseball Era Committee – which evaluates candidates who made their greatest impact on the game prior to 1980 – to vote on when it meets next in December 2027.’

Would Rose’s election be a slam dunk?

Not necessarily.

Just like with Hall of Fame voting done by hundreds of BBWAA members, Rose would need to garner support on 75% of ballots, or 12 of 16 committee members.

In what will surely become an ongoing measuring stick of perceived moral turpitude, all-time home run king Barry Bonds failed to reach that plateau in his first year under Contemporary Era Committee review in 2022.

Bonds received less than four votes, the Hall announced, meeting the same fate as Roger Clemens and Rafael Palmeiro, two other players closely tied to performance-enhancing drug use.

While Rose is the game’s all-time hits king, Bonds is the objectively superior player, amassing 162.8 career WAR to Rose’s 79.6. Bonds still holds a significant advantage if his years before well-documented ties to PEDs began: From 1986 through 1998, he produced 99.9 WAR.

That means future committees will face the same ethical quandary BBWAA voters did in the decade Bonds, Clemens and others were on the Hall ballot: Is gambling on games you managed – and, likely, played in – a disqualifying violation?

For decades, MLB commissioners upholding Rose’s permanent ban made that a non-issue. In coming years, it will be in the hands of 16 electors.

Mikael Granlund netted his first career playoff hat trick to pace Dallas to a 3-1 victory over the visiting Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday, leaving the Stars one win away from advancing to the final four of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Goaltender Jake Oettinger made 31 saves in a sparkling performance for the Stars, who lead the best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal series 3-1. Dallas, which is on the verge of reaching the conference finals for the third consecutive season, will try to close out the set on Thursday in Winnipeg.

Nikolaj Ehlers scored for the Jets, who finished atop the league standings in the regular season but find themselves on the brink of elimination. Goalie Connor Hellebuyck stopped 21 shots.

Winnipeg has lost all five of its road playoff games this spring, and the Jets have dropped nine consecutive playoff outings away from home over the past three years.

Granlund netted a power-play goal 8:36 into the game to open the scoring. The veteran forward worked to the high slot and while using a defender for a screen fired a long shot that eluded Hellebuyck.

Ehlers pulled the Jets even 62 seconds into the second period with his third goal in the past three games. Two seconds after a Winnipeg power play expired, Ehlers found the mark with a sharp-angled offering.

Granlund put the Stars ahead for good at 17:52 of the middle frame when he buried a short-side shot while participating in a two-on-one rush up the ice.

Granlund netted his third of the game at 7:23 of the third period, moments after Oettinger denied a Kyle Connor short-handed breakaway. During a four-minute power play, Granlund unloaded a one-timer from the right circle, which brought a flurry of hats from the stands.

Winnipeg’s best chance to mount a comeback came during a late power play, but the Jets failed to convert for the third time in the game with the man advantage. They have scored only once with 16 power-play opportunities in the series.

The Jets did create a bevy of opportunities in the waning minutes, but Oettinger shut the door.

Steve Kerr’s Golden State Warriors had just beaten the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals, but his tone was somber.

“Obviously, we’re all concerned about Steph,” Kerr said, “but it’s part of the game.’

Part of the game. Always has been. Always will be. That doesn’t take away the sting from the game’s best players missing playoff games due to injury.

And the sting has had an impact, from Curry’s injury to Milwaukee guard Damian Lillard’s torn Achilles to Cleveland guard Darius Garland’s sprained left toe – and now Boston forward Jayson Tatum has a lower right leg injury.

It is not uncommon.

Last season, Lillard missed some of the playoffs, and teammate Giannis Antetokounmpo missed all of the playoffs. Boston’s Kristaps Porzingis was in and out of the lineup and didn’t play in the Eastern Conference finals and played in just three games in the NBA Finals. Zion Williamson sustained a hamstring injury in the play-in game and missed the first round, and Kawhi Leonard was available for just two first-round games in 2024. New Yok’s OG Anunoby missed the end of the Indiana series, and Joel Embiid was not close to 100%.

A 2021 ESPN headline: “NBA Finals 2021: How injuries shaped the title run and what it means for the 2022 playoffs.”

As Kerr said, it’s part of the game.

Injuries affecting the 2025 NBA playoffs

Cleveland Cavaliers

The Cavaliers reduced minutes for key players this season in hopes of being healthy and not overly tired for the playoffs. However, all the best intentions can go awry, and they have for the Cavs. All-Star Darius Garland played in two of four first-round games and missed Games 1-2 against the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference semifinals. Defensive Player of the Year Evan Mobley missed Game 2 with a sprained left ankle, and De’Andre Hunter, one of the NBA’s best reserves, missed Game 2 with a sprained right thumb.

This is how much a series can tilt because of injuries: The Cavs were without Garland, Mobley and Hunter in Game 2 – a game in which they led 98-81 with 6.3 seconds left in the third quarter and 119-112 with 57.6 seconds left in the fourth. They lost 120-119.

Boston Celtics

The Tatum injury is devastating. Though the Knicks had taken control of the game late in the fourth quarter, Tatum was spectacular with 42 points on 16-for-28 shooting. Down 3-1, the prospect of coming back to win the series without Tatum, an All-Star who is headed for another All-NBA selection this season, seems impossible.

It not only sways the direction of this season, but next season as well as the Celtics ponder a future that includes new owners and a payroll that will approach nearly $500 million, luxury taxes included, in 2025-26.

Big man Kristaps Porzingis has been available but also limited in the playoffs due to lingering effects of a viral infection that forced him in and out of the lineup late in the regular season. In two of the four games against the Knicks in the East semifinals, Porzingis played less than 14 minutes in two games and less than 20 minutes in three of the four.

Jrue Holiday (strained right hamstring) missed the final three games of the first round against Orlando, and while he is no longer on the injury report and has played in all four games against New York, he has scored just 12 points in the past two games.

Boston’s depth has suffered, too, with Sam Hauser’s sprained ankle which has kept him out of Games 2-4.

Golden State Warriors

Just watching the Warriors without Curry in the past three games against Minnesota – all Timberwolves victories – shows how much they need Curry to win a game in the series. They miss his shooting, scoring, playmaking and defense. They miss the Curry aura that makes him one of the best to have ever played in the NBA.

Curry sustained a grade 1 hamstring strain in Game 1 against Minnesota in the West semifinals, and the Warriors are down 3-1. The Timberwolves are good and still might be up in the series even with Curry playing, but the Warriors struggle when he’s not available. There’s a remote chance Curry returns for Game 5 Wednesday, and while it’s plenty to ask of one player, Golden State’s chances to make this a six- or seven-game series depend on Curry.

Golden State’s Jimmy Butler missed Game 3 against Houston in the first round with a pelvic contusion.

Milwaukee Bucks

After missing the final 14 games of the regular season and the first game of the first round against Indiana with deep vein thrombosis in his right calf, Lillard went down with a torn left Achilles tendon against Indiana in Game 4.

The Bucks lost the series in five games, their third consecutive first-round playoff loss.

This is another injury that potentially reshapes the league. Lillard, who could miss all of next season, can become a free agent in the summer of 2026, and All-NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo will consider what his future with the team looks like. The conjecture will dominate NBA transactional discussions through the end of the Finals, through the draft and into free agency.

Denver Nuggets

Michael Porter Jr. is not on Denver’s injury report, but he sprained a joint in his left shoulder against the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round and has it wrapped during the West semifinals against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

His inability to move that shoulder the way he wants has limited his shooting effectiveness. An 18.2-points a game scorer and 50.4% shooter from the field and 39.5% on 3-pointers during the regular season, Porter is at 8.5 points per game, 31.4% shooting from the field and 31.8% on 3s against the Thunder.

Porter told reporters it’s an injury that can sideline a player for 4-6 weeks.

Memphis Grizzlies

The Thunder swept the Grizzlies in the first round, and Memphis guard Ja Morant exited in the second quarter of Game 3 with a bruised hip. He didn’t return and was ruled out for Game 4.

Jordon Hudson ‘doesn’t have anything to do’ with the North Carolina football program, according to Bill Belichick.

The first-year Tar Heels coach commented on his girlfriend Tuesday at the ACC spring meetings during a live appearance on ESPN’s ‘Sports Center’ with Christine Williamson. It was his first public interview since his viral appearance on ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ that was aired late in April.

‘Really off to the side, it’s a personal relationship. She doesn’t have anything to do with UNC football. I’m excited to be back in the coaches’ meetings getting ready for June and then August when we get to training camp,’ Belichick told Williamson. ‘June will be a big recruiting month for us and then in August we will start getting ready for the season.’

Belichick’s comments that Hudson ‘doesn’t have anything to do’ with the Tar Heels program come after North Carolina issued a denial statement to a report by former ESPN host Pablo Torre that Hudson was no longer allowed inside the football facilities.

Asked whether he has been able to speak with his players on how his relationship with Hudson has been covered on social media, Belichick said he has.

‘I talk to the players when we meet with them and when they come in to visit for stuff for sure,’ Belichick said.

The relationship between the 73-year-old Belichick and the 24-year-old Hudson has been at the forefront of headlines since he was hired at North Carolina in December of last year. The scrutiny of the two’s relationship escalated on April 27 when Hudson inserted herself into Belichick’s interview on ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ when the former Patriots coach was asked how the two met by reporter Tony Dokoupil.

That was then followed up by a report by The Athletic that Hudson played an ‘instrumental part’ in HBO dropping the Tar Heels from being covered in their offseason edition of ‘Hard Knocks,’ which would have been the first college program featured on the traditional NFL show. As noted by USA TODAY, Hudson also posted on her Instagram account a screenshot of emails sent by the six-time Super Bowl winning coach following his CBS interview in which he criticized how the network edited the interview, which was also to promote his forthcoming book.

Tuesday’s interview on ‘SportsCenter’ is the first of two known interviews Belichick is set to make this week, as he is set to appear on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ on Friday with former New York Giant and GMA co-host Michael Strahan.

North Carolina is set to open the Bill Belichick era at home on Monday, Sept. 1 at 7:30 p.m. ET against TCU at Kenan Stadium.

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