SOURCE SPORTS: Controversial Baseball Legend Pete Rose Dead At 83

Even if the infamous “Charlie Hustle” aka Pete Rose is made eligible to be inducted into Baseball’s Hall Of Fame in Cooperstown, it will now be a posthumous honor as the “hit king” passed away today(September 30) in his Las Vegas, Nevada home.

Mr. Rose was 83 years old.

Throughout his illustrious baseball career, which spanned almost 25 years not including managerial tenure, Rose is still the all-time MLB leader in base hits(4,256), surpassing Ty Cobb’s record almost 40 years ago(September 11, 1985) and won three World Series titles for the Philadelphia Phillies(1980) and of course, with the Reds for his hometown of Cincinnati(1975 and 1976). He was a 17x All-Star, received two Gold Glove Awards and was named the MVP in the National League and the World Series.

Rose received a lifetime ban from professional baseball(MLB) for gambling on Reds baseball games by the late Commissioner Bart Giammatti, who passed away just eight days after rendering his decision against Rose in 1989. Although Rose didn’t publicly admit to gambling on baseball until the HBO documentary Charlie Hustle & the Matter of Pete Rose was released in July of this year, he applied several times for reinstatement in order to make him eligible for the Hall of Fame, but was denied by current MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred.

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