It was quite a thing Tuesday that Pete Rose’s name — 16 others’, too, including “Shoeless” Joe Jackson’s — was posthumously removed from Major League Baseball’s permanently ineligible list.

In a sweeping decision, commissioner Rob Manfred said Tuesday that MLB had reinstated deceased people the league had deemed “permanently ineligible” under Rule 21 of its code of conduct.

Pete Rose had his Hall of Fame chances resurrected by commissioner Rob Manfred.