Report: MLB hit king Pete Rose dies at 83

[TMC]

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/report-...231616652.html

Pete Rose won three World Series titles during his career, including two with his hometown Reds.

Ryan Young · Staff writer
Updated Mon, September 30, 2024 at 4:44 PM PDT

Longtime MLB star Pete Rose died on Monday afternoon, his agent confirmed to TMZ.

He was 83. Specifics surrounding his death are not yet known.

Rose spent 24 years in Major League Baseball, and he retired as the league’s all-time hits leader, among other things. The Cincinnati native got his start with the Reds in 1963, and he spent the first 16 seasons of his career with the organization. He won a pair of World Series titles in 1975 and 1976, which marked the club’s first championships in 35 years.

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Rose then spent a five-year run with the Philadelphia Phillies, and he won his third World Series title there in 1980. He then spent half of a season with the Montreal Expos in 1984 before returning to Cincinnati that year to wrap up his playing career.

Rose finished with 4,256 hits, which is the most in MLB history. He’s one of just two players, along with Ty Cobb, to even surpass the 4,000-hits mark. Rose also holds MLB records for games played (3,562), plate appearances (15,890) and at bats (14,053). Rose won three batting titles and two Gold Glove awards throughout his career, and he picked up 17 All-Star nods. He was the league’s MVP in 1973, when he held a .388 batting average with 230 hits, five home runs and 64 RBI.

Rose spent seven seasons as the Reds’ manager, including the final few seasons when he was still playing. He won two divisional titles while in that role and finished with a 412-373 overall record. Rose’s career ended in scandal, however, as he was banned from the sport for live in 1989 for gambling on games while he was the Reds’ manager — including on his own team’s games.

That lifetime ban, which has been debated constantly through the years as new commissioners took over the league, has kept him out of the Baseball Hall of Fame. He tried to be reinstated in 2015 in a final bid to make it in, but current commissioner Rob Manfred denied it. Gambling on games the way he did, Rose said, was his only regret.

[Zoneboy]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...dal-rcna173378

Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hits leader who was banned from the sport after he gambled on his own team as a player and manager, died Monday. He was 83.

The Clark County, Nevada, medical examiner's office confirmed Rose’s death, the cause of which was not immediately available.


Rose played 24 seasons in the major leagues, the last three of which as a player-manager. He most famously played for the Cincinnati Reds from 1963 to 1978 and again from 1984 to 1986. Rose was placed on MLB’s ineligible list in August 1989 after an investigation revealed he had gambled on baseball — including on the Reds’ own games — when he was manager.

He did not admit to gambling on baseball until 2004, when he wrote in his autobiography that he bet both as a player and a manager but never against his own team.

Former Major League Baseball player and manager Pete Rose in Las Vegas on Dec. 15, 2015.Ethan Miller / Getty Images file
Rose was a 17-time All-Star and three-time World Series champion who won the National League MVP award in 1973. He retired from playing after the 1986 season with 4,256 hits, a record that stands to this day. He also retired with the records for games played and at-bats.

Nicknamed “Charlie Hustle,” Rose was known for his gritty style of play. In the 1970 All-Star Game, he scored the winning run for the National League by colliding with Cleveland Indians catcher Ray Fosse at home plate.

In the years following his ban from baseball, Rose applied several times for reinstatement but was never admitted. The National Hall of Fame also began excluding players on the permanently ineligible list from being inducted in 1991, preventing Rose from earning the sport’s highest honor.

Rose faced legal troubles off the field after his ban. He spent time in prison from July 1990 to January 1991 after he pleaded guilty to tax evasion.

A court document that became public as part of a 2017 lawsuit also alleged that Rose committed statutory rape in the 1970s. In the document, a woman alleged that Rose, 32 at the time, called her in 1973 — when she was 14 or 15 — and thereafter, before she was 16, "began a sexual relationship" with her that "lasted for several year."

Rose admitted having sex with her — but said it was in 1975, when he thought she was 16, Ohio’s age of consent, according to the filing.

The lawsuit from which the statutory rape allegations emerged was later dismissed, ESPN reported.

A native of Cincinnati, Rose was admitted into the Reds Hall of Fame in 2016. In 1999, he was allowed to take the field in Atlanta as an exception to his ban to appear in a ceremony for MLB’s All-Century Team.

[D-Dey]

I was about to post a statement that he should've been admitted to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, when I saw that line about him being in the Hall of Fame in 2016. Then I read it again, and I realized it was just the Reds Hall of Fame.

He deserved to be honored with the rest of the greats, and I'm not even a Reds fan.

[biffbronson]

Originally Posted by D-Dey

He deserved to be honored with the rest of the greats, and I'm not even a Reds fan.

I agree with that 100%. Rose's impact on the game cannot be overstated. I think it's a damn shame that he wasn't inducted into the HoF while he was still living, it's ridiculous and a crime.

[ponytail]

Originally Posted by biffbronson

I agree with that 100%. Rose's impact on the game cannot be overstated. I think it's a damn shame that he wasn't inducted into the HoF while he was still living, it's ridiculous and a crime.

And I agree with you. It's sad that he is remembered for his gambling and not for what he did as a player.