# The 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot - SDMB, Let's Vote! And Argue! **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2025-baseball-hall-of-fame-ballot-sdmb-lets-vote-and-argue/1010415 **Category:** The Game Room **Tags:** baseball-mlb **Created:** [November 18, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2025-baseball-hall-of-fame-ballot-sdmb-lets-vote-and-argue/1010415 "2024-11-18T20:22:17Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 74
### Author: ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65) #### Post date: [May 13, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2025-baseball-hall-of-fame-ballot-sdmb-lets-vote-and-argue/1010415/74 "2025-05-13T21:37:13Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame? New thread on the topic: > [@MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred ruled today that “permanent ineligibility” from baseball ends upon the person’s death](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-commissioner-rob-manfred-ruled-today-that-permanent-ineligibility-from-baseball-ends-upon-the-person-s-death/1018345): > > Well, this surprised me… MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred ruled today that “permanent ineligibility” from baseball ends upon the person’s death. This means that sixteen now-deceased players and one now-deceased owner, who have been on the ineligible list, are being taken off of the list. The real implication is that it now means that Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson, among others, have become eligible for enshrinement in the Hall of Fame; the Hall had changed their rules in 1991 (just before Ro… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2025-baseball-hall-of-fame-ballot-sdmb-lets-vote-and-argue/1010415)._