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.

Rose, who died last September, agreed to a permanent ban in 1989 after he was caught betting on his team, the Cincinnati Reds, as a player and as manager. Other players now eligible for posthumous induction include Shoeless Joe Jackson and his seven Chicago Black Sox teammates banned for throwing the 1919 World Series.