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 classic baseball movie,

As news broke that "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Pete Rose are now eligible for the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame as a result of being removed from the permanently ineligible list, some people are wondering why "Shoeless" Joe Jackson was banned from baseball in the first place.

Pete Rose is finally out of MLB’s doghouse, and he has some company. Rose, placed on the league’s permanently ineligible list in August 1989 over gambling on baseball, was reinstated by commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday — and was joined by “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, according to ESPN.