After decades of controversy and exclusion, Major League Baseball has lifted Pete Rose’s lifetime ban, opening the Hall of Fame doors for one of the game’s most passionate and prolific legends.

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred removed Pete Rose, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and several other former players from the permanently ineligible list on Tuesday, paving the way for those players to earn a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Here's what a decision to remove deceased players from MLB's ineligible list means for their Hall of Fame eligibility and more.