What does reinstatement of Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson mean for Barry Bonds?

SAN FRANCISCO — Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred announced on Tuesday that he has removed Pete Rose, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and other deceased players from the league’s permanently ineligible list.

The decision paves the way for Rose and Jackson — two of baseball’s greatest players whose legacies were tainted by gambling — to gain admittance to the Hall of Fame.

“Obviously, a person no longer with us cannot represent a threat to the integrity of the game,” wrote Manfred in a letter to attorney Jeffrey M.