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MLB killed king Pete Rose at age 83
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MLB killed king Pete Rose at age 83

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

Pete Rose won three World Series titles during his career, including two with his hometown Reds. (Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)

Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s hit king who was later banned from baseball entirely, died Monday afternoon, the Cincinnati Reds announced.

He was 83.

Details surrounding Rose’s death are not yet known, although his death was confirmed by the Clark County, Nevada, medical examiner’s office at ABC News.

Nicknamed “Charlie Hustle,” Rose spent 24 years in Major League Baseball, including retiring as the league’s all-time leader. The Cincinnati native started with the Reds in 1963 and spent the first sixteen 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.

Rose then spent a five-year stint with the Philadelphia Phillies, winning his third World Series title in 1980. He then spent half a season with the Montreal Expos in 1984 before returning to Cincinnati that year to continue his playing career to complete. .

Rose finished with 4,256 hits, the most in MLB history. He is one of only two players, along with Ty Cobb, to even surpass the 4,000 hit mark. Rose also holds MLB records for games played (3,562), at-bats (15,890) and at-bats (14,053). Rose won three batting titles and two Gold Glove awards during his career, and he received 17 All-Star nods. He was the league’s MVP in 1973, when he had a .338 batting average with 230 hits, five home runs and 64 RBI.

“I am the winningest athlete in the history of team sports,” Rose told the Cincinnati Enquirer in 2018. “For me, my biggest record is the number of winning games I played in. And that’s also a testament to all the great teammates I played with. .”

Rose spent seven seasons as manager of the Reds, including the last few seasons when he was still playing. He won two division titles in that role and finished with an overall record of 412-373.

Rose’s career ended in scandal, however, when he was banned from the sport in 1989 for betting on matches while he was the Reds manager – including on his own team’s matches.

Shortly after accepting a lifetime ban from then-Commissioner Bart Giammatti, Rose was convicted of tax evasion and spent several months in prison. He admitted in a 2004 book that he had bet on baseball, after long denying the allegations.

That lifetime ban, which was continually debated over 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 last-ditch effort to save it, but current commissioner Rob Manfred denied this. His only regret was gambling the way he did, Rose said.

“There’s only one thing I would change if I had to live it all over again… I would obviously turn my life around and not bet on baseball,” Rose told the Cincinnati Enquirer. “That said, I feel like I’ve been a pretty good citizen.

“You never read about me sitting in a bar after hours, beating up my wife or getting into a fight with a fan, and I was as friendly to everyone as I could be.”