The 17-month investigation started after several people reported unauthorized gambling accounts had been created and funded using their identities. The rule in opposition to gambling in baseball is named “Rule 21,” which is publicly posted on dugout walls and states: “Any participant, umpire, or membership or league official or worker, who shall bet any sum in any way on any baseball game in connection with which the bettor must perform shall be declared permanently ineligible.” People completely banned from Major League Baseball are also ceaselessly banned from entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame. However, most such folks have been reinstated several years later by a later Commissioner of Baseball. As an example, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays have been both banned from baseball in 1983 after taking jobs as casino greeters (which might have expelled them from the Hall of Fame had they been allowed to face); they were reinstated two years later.
