Jackson and seven other members of the 1919 White Sox were permanently banned from baseball, accused of taking bribes from gamblers to intentionally lose the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred ended the lifetime bans of several deceased former major leaguers on Tuesday. Among those reinstated were two of the best hitters in the history of baseball,

As news broke that "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Pete Rose are now eligible for the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame as a result of being removed from the permanently ineligible list, some people are wondering why "Shoeless" Joe Jackson was banned from baseball in the first place.