Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hit king and the Cincinnati Reds icon whose signature gritty hustle couldn’t outpace the gambling transgressions and obfuscation that kept him out of the National Baseball Hall of Fame,

Pete Rose, a great player with a controversial legacy, rewrote baseball history but reached Cooperstown only as a vendor selling his autograph. Rose, who died Sept. 30 at age 83, will be remembered as the career leader in hits (4,256) and 17-time All-Star who also managed his hometown Cincinnati Reds for five years.

Star overcame physical limitations to author one of the greatest legacies in MLB history, before he was permanently banned for betting on games.

One of the sport’s greatest players, he set a record with 4,256 career hits. But his gambling led to a lifetime ban and kept him out of the Hall of Fame.

Pete Rose, who died Monday at age 83, could hit a baseball like nobody else, but his life away from the game was anything but a big hit.

Pete Rose, baseball’s career hits leader and fallen idol who undermined his historic achievements and Hall of Fame dreams by gambling on the game he loved and once embodied, has died. He was 83.

Pete Rose still isn't going into the Baseball Hall of Fame. While the career hits leader's banishment from baseball 35 years ago was often referred to as a lifetime ban, and his death this week led some to believe that would end,

Although it’s often said that Pete Rose received a “lifetime ban,” baseball’s all-time hits leader was actually declared “permanently ineligible” in 1989.

Former Major League Baseball star Pete Rose's death at his home in Las Vegas on Monday was due to natural causes, the Clark County coroner's office said. The cause of death of the 83-year-old Rose was determined to be "hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease with a significant condition of diabetes mellitus,