Anyone who bets on any game involving his team, the rule goes on, "shall be declared permanently ineligible."

Rose was declared permanently ineligible for the Hall of Fame due to his role in gambling on baseball games.

For a few confusing hours yesterday, seven members of the Syracuse basketball team were declared permanently ineligible by the university.

No one in the history of baseball who has been declared permanently ineligible has ever been readmitted to the game.

Or worse, for Steinbrenner, the commissioner could place him on the permanently ineligible list, a status from which no one has ever returned.

He was recruited to army in 1915 and was severely injured, declared permanently ineligible.

Mr. Rose was banished from the game and placed on the permanently ineligible list.

But the Yankees' principal owner somehow preferred to accept being treated as if he were on the permanently ineligible list.

Under the agreement, Rose was declared permanently ineligible, though he can apply for reinstatement after one year of his punishment.

Rose was placed on baseball's permanently ineligible list in August 1989.