Rob Manfred has denied a request to reinstate Shoeless Joe Jackson, so the player banned for the 1919 Black Sox scandal will remain on the ineligible list.

The Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum in Greenville, South Carolina, had appealed to Manfred earlier this year.

Manfred said he checked the records of commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti's review in 1989 that also declined to reinstate Jackson because the case was "now best given to historical analysis and debate as opposed to a present-day review with an eye to reinstatement."

"I agree with that determination and conclude that it would not be appropriate for me to reopen this matter," Manfred said.