MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred ruled today that “permanent ineligibility” from baseball ends upon the person’s death

Here is the full list of seventeen people (sixteen players and one owner, I believe) impacted by Manfred’s ruling:

  • Eddie Cicotte
  • Happy Felsch
  • Chick Gandil
  • Joe Jackson
  • Fred McMullin
  • Swede Risberg
  • Buck Weaver
  • Lefty Williams
  • Joe Gedeon
  • Gene Paulette
  • Benny Kauff
  • Lee Magee
  • Phil Douglas
  • Cozy Dolan
  • Jimmy O’Connell
  • William Cox
  • Pete Rose

The first eight on the list above were members of the “Black Sox.” Of the others, beyond Rose:

  • Gedeon, Paulette, Magee, Dolan, O’Connell, and Cox (owner of the Phillies) were implicated in gambling.
  • Kauff was banned for involvement in an auto theft (for which he had been acquitted)
  • Douglas had written a letter encouraging another player to throw a game