Now, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has removed Pete Rose, Joe Jackson and other late players from the game's "permanently unqualified roster" which is based on any former star they deserve in their live achievements, and should introduce the initial opportunity to the Hall of Fame.

In the bombshell, if overdue, the policy reversal was first reported by ESPN's Don van Natta Jr. on Tuesday that Manfred removed Rose's ban (they bet on the game while managing the Cincinnati Reds) and members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox.

After all, once they are all dead, exile is pointless—regardless of what they commit, life imprisonment if you will. Most people died decades ago and ranked among the top of gambling-related crimes.

"Obviously, one person who is no longer with us is threatening the integrity of the game," Manfred wrote in a letter to the attorney for petitioning Rose.

The sole purpose of the ban is to save them from being inducted into Cooperstown, which formally regards themselves as the "National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum."

The last sentence is the most important.

There is a museum that tells history, and history is always chaotic - including movement. They should not be designed for sanitary, agency-approved events, nor should they allow external considerations to mask actual achievements. Of course, they should not be part of some carrot sticking method.

Should Ross do what they do? Of course not. Should their actions be subject to any potential criminal or civil recourse? Absolutely. Does Major League Baseball have the right to suspend or punish them in other ways? really.

For example, Rose should never be allowed to work again in baseball after winning the bet for the Reds when he was sure he was a manager.

But that doesn't mean his record 4,256 hits, his three World Series titles, his MVP award (1973), his 17 All-Star appearances (including when he barreled over catcher Ray Fosse in the 1970 game), his "Charlie Hustle" nickname, or that epic head-first slide -- show so many times on "This Week in Baseball" that a generation of kids either crushed their chests or chipped their teeth trying to emulate it -- didn't happen.

The same goes for his gambling scandal, a 1990 plea to file a false tax return that cost him five months in federal prison, and a 2017 statement sworn in to a woman who committed statutory rape in the 1970s, a charge he had never been guilty of. He may have been unparalleled, difficult and confrontational throughout his life.

This is part of the story of Pete Rose.

So let him in and tell the good guys, bad things and ugly so that the public can decide what to think. It's the Baseball Hall of Fame, not the Pearl Gate. It’s a great day in Central New York with your family and comes with a gift shop.

If the museum was there to tell the history of the sport, what would you do without Pete Rose? If the Hall of Fame induction is preserved for the greatest players, how could Ross not be among them? His stupidity as a manager should not hide his influence as a player.

This is where baseball policy is always wrong. It uses the prospect of prohibiting access to the hall as a deterrent. That's not what a museum should be. The risk of criminal charges, wages lost due to suspensions and general shame should be sufficient. If not, then that's it.

Manfred is not ready to release those who are still on the off-qualification list. He insists on the concept of scaring current players. "It is difficult to imagine a punishment that is more deterrent than a punishment that lasts a lifetime without probation," he wrote in the letter.

Maybe, but should this be the point?

The hall is already filled with all sorts of clumsy, drunk and racists who happen to be able to hit or throw a baseball. so what? Their personal shame is part of their history.

To be fair, their personal failures did not affect the way Rose is managing gamblers, and certainly not what the Black Sox did that day.

Still, there are owners and commissioners in the hall who have worked for decades to stop the racial integration of baseball. This has a much greater impact on the integrity of the game than betting on your team to beat the Dodgers.

Yes, sports betting has always been a problem and used to be a major taboo. But public opinion and business reality have changed. There are sports books in Today, the MLB Stadiums include Rose’s old team in Cincinnati.

History is history. Games are games. A museum is a museum. Tell the story, the whole story, no matter how colorful, crime or regret, all the best players, the best team and the best stories.

The United States can handle it. After all, our true national pastime is a scandal.