Pete Rose, Major League Baseball's all-time hitting leader, died Monday at his home in Las Vegas. TMZ Sports.
He was 83 years old.
TMZ Sports reported, “Pete's agent, Ryan Fitterman of Fitterman Sports, confirmed the news, saying, “The family requests privacy at this time.''
Rose's accomplishments as a player are legendary.
In a 24-year career spent almost entirely with the Reds and Phillies, the player known as “Charlie Hustle” had 4,256 hits (an MLB record), 160 home runs, 1,314 RBIs, and a career batting average of .303. .
Additionally, he was selected to the MLB All-Star Game 17 times and was the National League MVP in 1973. Rose also won three World Series championships with the Reds and Phillies.
Rose returned to the Reds in 1986 as player-manager. Three years later, in 1989, then-MLB commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti signed a contract agreeing to subject Rose to a lifetime suspension in exchange for the league not making a formal decision. Whether he bet on baseball or not.
The agreement gave Rose the leeway to say he never bet on baseball. But in the mid-2000s, he eventually admitted that he had done so.
Although Rose was eventually inducted into the Reds' Hall of Fame, MLB never lifted his suspension.
