Pete Rose's reinstatement by MLB surely clears a path for other players, like Barry Bonds, to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. But what if neither of them is enshrined?

The most important implication of Manfred's decision has to do with the Baseball Hall of Fame. Pursuant to Rose's placement on the permanently ineligible list, the Hall in 1991 ruled that players on that list could not be elected into the Hall of Fame.

Nobody ever played more games, collected more hits or generated more passionate opinions than Pete Rose. The history of baseball can’t be told without him, and his memorabilia and records are displayed throughout the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown,