Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred ended the lifetime bans of several deceased former major leaguers on Tuesday. Among those reinstated were two of the best hitters in the history of baseball,

Major League Baseball has removed Pete Rose and other deceased players from MLB’s permanently ineligible list, an extraordinary twist to a saga that has gone on for more than three decades.

Manfred announced Tuesday that he was changing the league's policy on permanent ineligibility, saying bans would expire at death.