Rose died in September 2024 at the age of 83, and attorney Jeffrey Lenkov filed a petition to remove Rose's permanent ban. In a letter to Lenkov, Manfred said the permanently ineligible list no longer applies to deceased former players.

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,

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.