Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hits leader who was banned from the sport after betting on his own team as a player and manager, died Monday at age 83.
Rose’s death was confirmed by the Clark County, Nevada, medical examiner’s office.
Rose played 24 seasons in the Major Leagues, the last three as a player and coach. Likewise, he played for the Cincinnati Reds from 1963 to 1978, and again from 1984 to 1986.
Rose was placed on MLB’s ineligible list in August 1989 after an investigation revealed that he bet on baseball, including on the Reds’ own games, when he was a manager.
He did not admit to having bet on baseball until 2004, when he wrote in his autobiography that he bet as a player and as a coach, but never against his own team.
Rose was a 17-time All-Star and three-time World Series champion and won the National League MVP award in 1973.
He retired from the game after the 1986 season with 4,256 hits, a record that stands to this day.
In the years following his ban from baseball, Rose requested reinstatement several times, but was never admitted.
The MLB Hall of Fame also began excluding players on the permanently ineligible list from induction in 1991, preventing Rose from earning the sport’s highest honor.
A native of Cincinnati, Rose was inducted into the Reds Hall of Fame in 2016.
