MLB legend Pete Rose has died at the age of 83, according to a report.
Rose, considered one of the greatest (and most controversial) baseball players in MLB history, is said to have died at his home in Las Vegas on Monday.
Rose’s agent, Ryan Fiterman, confirmed the news, via TMZsaying, “The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Rose spent most of his baseball career with the Cincinnati Reds, but also enjoyed stints with the Philadelphia Phillies and Montreal Expos.
The MLB hit king earned 17 All-Star nominations, won three World Series and the 1973 National League Most Valuable Player.
MLB legend Pete Rose dies at 83
He returned to Cincinnati, where he finished his career as player-coach of the Reds, and left his shoes as a player permanently in 1986.
However, Rose’s career on the diamond was not without controversy. In 1989, then-MLB commissioner Bart Giamatti banned him from playing baseball after the league determined he would bet on the sport.
He admitted to betting on the Cincinnati Reds when he played and managed the team from 1985 to 1987.
An allegation that Rose had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a minor in the 1970s also emerged in recent years.
In 2017, the Phillies canceled his induction into the team’s Wall of Fame after a Cincinnati woman said in federal court that she had a sexual relationship with the married Rose that began during his first stint with the Reds in 1973, when She was 14 or 15 years old. .
Rose has never been charged with statutory rape and the statute of limitations has expired. Although he allegedly admitted to the relationship, he insisted that he believed she was 16 at the time of the affair, making her old enough in the state of Ohio to consent to sexual activity.
In recent years, Rose has appeared at Reds games in Cincinnati, where he is still considered one of the best players in team history and one of the city’s favorite local athletes.
Despite his ban, which prevents him from entering the Hall of Fame and working in the MLB, Rose pleaded with the MLB to be allowed a chance several times.
Rose enjoyed stints with the Philadelphia Phillies (right) and Montreal Expos (left).
The MLB hit king earned 17 All-Star Game nominations and won three World Series. Photographed in 1980
As recently as 2022, Rose sent a letter to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred to try to get into the Hall of Fame.
He wrote to Manfred asking for forgiveness and a chance to fulfill his “dream” in November 2022.
‘I apologize. Despite my many mistakes, I am very proud of what I accomplished as a baseball player,” Rose wrote in the 2022 letter.
‘I am the King of Hit and my dream is to be considered for the Hall of Fame. Like all of us, I believe in responsibility.
‘I am 81 years old and I know that I have had to be accountable and that I take responsibility. I am writing now to ask for another chance.’
The letter came after Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Rafael Palmeiro, accused of steroid cheating, were placed on the Hall of Fame committee’s ballot.
He also requested reinstatement in 2020, asking Manfred to grant him access to the Hall of Fame.
Rose was a member of the 1980 Philadelphia Phillies championship team (above), but is officially banned from baseball after admitting he bet on the Cincinnati Reds.
Rose and former Commissioner Giamatti accepted the lifetime ban in August 1989 after attorney John Dowd’s investigation found that he had placed numerous bets on the Reds, violating one of baseball’s oldest rules.
While he is not accused of betting against the Reds, Rose’s bets presented a number of problems for MLB, which felt the sanctity of the game was threatened.
For example, Rose could have held on to the team’s best relief pitchers when he had no money on the line, while pushing them to pitch when he was betting on the Reds.
Manfred, in a 2015 denial of Rose’s reinstatement request, argued that he had “failed to present credible evidence of a reconfigured life, nor through an honest acceptance on his part of his wrongdoings, so clearly set forth in the Dowd Report, nor through rigorous and rigorous self-assessment.” conscious and sustained program to avoid on your part all the circumstances that led to your permanent ineligibility.’
Rose’s death is one of several that will shake up Major League Baseball in 2024, including the passing of Giants legends Willie Mays and Orlando Cepeda.
More to follow.
