What was the Black Sox Scandal? Eight members of the Chicago White Sox, including Shoeless Joe, were accused of accepting bribes to lose the 1919 World Series between the White Sox and the ...

Among that list of players are Pete Rose and Chicago White Sox great "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, who were posthumously reinstated.

Shoeless Joe Jackson has been banned from baseball for over a century, but after a ruling by Rob Manfred on Tuesday, the disgraced former White Sox star has a chance at baseball immortality ...

Headshot of American baseball player "Shoeless" Joe Jackson in his Chicago White Sox uniform, 1919. APA/Hulton Archive, Getty Images/TNS Paul Sullivan Chicago Tribune ...

Shoeless Joe Jackson in 1917, two years before the Black Sox Scandal of 1919, when players from the White Sox were accused of fixing the World Series that season. (Associated Press file) ...

In 1981, WBBM-TV, CBS Channel 2 Chicago documentary producer Scott Craig produced this award-winning dramatic reenactment of the 1921 trial of White Sox baseball player "Shoeless" Joe Jackson ...

Headshot of American baseball player "Shoeless" Joe Jackson in his Chicago White Sox uniform, 1919. APA/Hulton Archive, Getty Images/TNS Paul Sullivan Chicago Tribune ...

CHICAGO -- "Shoeless" Joe Jackson was a tragic real-life figure from over a century ago whose legend grew in time thanks to the fictional ghost of Shoeless Joe played by actor Ray Liotta in the ...

Shoeless Joe Jackson was a member of the 1919 White Sox that was on the short end of the series with the Cincinnati Reds.

Jackson was a member of the Chicago White Sox who were accused of conspiring with gamblers to lose the 1919 World Series on purpose. The Black Sox Scandal is among the most infamous in baseball ...

Manfred reinstated 17 other banned players as well, including members of the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox who threw the World Series, including the team’s star “Shoeless” Joe Jackson.

Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson — longstanding pariahs in Major League Baseball due to their gambling on the sport — have been removed from MLB’s permanently ineligible list.