Rose is the only living member of the ineligible list.
In 2008 the Veterans Committee barred players and managers on the ineligible list from consideration.
Pete Rose, remember, was already on baseball's ineligible list for gambling before his tax-evasion conviction in 1990.
No other retired player who would be on the writers' ballot is on the ineligible list.
Or worse, for Steinbrenner, the commissioner could place him on the permanently ineligible list, a status from which no one has ever returned.
With appropriate grades, they could come off the ineligible list.
Mr. Rose was banished from the game and placed on the permanently ineligible list.
Landis placed him on the ineligible list in March 1921.
O'Connell did not deny the bribe attempt, and was placed on the ineligible list.
Rose was placed on baseball's permanently ineligible list in August 1989.