The Major League Baseball commissioner surprised the baseball world with his Pete Rose decision after pressure from the president.

While no major votes are expected to take place at this week’s quarterly MLB owners meetings in New York, commissioner Rob Manfred did discuss President Donald Trump’s influence on the Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson reinstatement,

The all-time hit king and Jackson -- both longtime baseball pariahs stained by gambling, seen by MLB as the game's mortal sin -- are now presumably eligible for election into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.