There’s a lot of disbelief,” said great-great nephew Joseph Raymond Jackson. “I didn't think I'd ever live to see this day happen."

The all-time hit king and Jackson -- both longtime baseball pariahs stained by gambling, seen by MLB as the game's mortal sin -- are now presumably eligible for election into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

Pete Rose was not the only name taken off of Major League Baseball’s permanently ineligible list on Tuesday. Former Chicago White Sox legend “Shoeless” Joe Jackson has a chance to join the Baseball Hall of Fame once again.

Jackson and seven other members of the 1919 White Sox were permanently banned from baseball, accused of taking bribes from gamblers to intentionally lose the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds.

For decades, Pete Rose’s legacy was split in two—on one side, the game’s all-time hits leader with 4,256 knocks. And on the other side, a man exiled from the sport he helped define. And now, eight months after his death,

I say a small part because like the real-life Archie “Moonlight” Graham, my grandfather had a very, very brief Major League Baseball career. Walter “Lefty” Anderson. Courtesy of Shoeless Joe Jackson Virtual Hall of Fame.