The appointment of a new MLB commissioner is always a good time for certain special interest groups—spitball enthusiasts, Montreal baseball fans, Pete Rose truthers—to begin seeking favors. “Maybe,” they think, “the new commissioner will be more reasonable than the last!” This is presumably why the proprietors of the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum appealed to commissioner Rob Manfred for Jackson’s reinstatement from the permanently ineligible list, which would open the possibility of him being elected to the Hall of Fame.Read more...