“There’s a lot of disbelief,” said the elder Joseph Raymond Jackson, a country club general manager and golf pro. “I didn’t think I’d ever live to see this day happen.”

Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson were reinstated by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday, making both eligible for the sport’s Hall of Fame after their careers were tarnished by sports gamb...

Letting Rose and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson into the Hall of Fame would effectively be a precedent that steroid-users like Bonds, McGwire, Sosa, Alex Rodriguez and Roger Clemens could see a path to a Hal...