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.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred Tuesday reinstated disgraced baseball great Pete Rose and other deceased players on MLB's permanently ineligible list. Manfred's decision, announced in a letter to the Rose family's lawyer,

Major League Baseball's decision on Tuesday to lift Pete Rose's ban from the Hall of Fame sent shockwaves that are still reverberating to this very moment. Many have expressed discomfort toward the recent news while vehemently berating MLB commissioner Rob Manfred.