Players who [[gambling|gambled]] on baseball while they were players—mostly notably Shoeless Joe Jackson who allegedly accepted an improper payment connected with the fix of the 1919 World Series,<ref>http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb-news/4654657-shoeless-joe-jackson-baseball-hall-of-fame-reinstatement-rob-manfred-black-sox</ref> and more recently Pete Rose for his alleged gambling as a player and later as a manager—have been declared ineligible for induction into the Hall of Fame. | Players who [[gambling|gambled]] on baseball while they were players—mostly notably Shoeless Joe Jackson who allegedly accepted an improper payment connected with the fix of the 1919 World Series,<ref>http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb-news/4654657-shoeless-joe-jackson-baseball-hall-of-fame-reinstatement-rob-manfred-black-sox</ref> and more recently Pete Rose for his alleged gambling as a player and later as a manager—have been declared ineligible for induction into the Hall of Fame. |