Pete Rose Is, So To Speak, Back at Bat. The commissioner of baseball clears the path for Charlie Hustle — and Shoeless Joe Jackson — to accede to the Hall of Fame. Cincinnati Reds' manager Pete Rose ...

Back in 1985, a Veazie Salmon Club member traveling to Florida connected with Cincinnati Reds catcher Bo Díaz, who helped get a Rose-signed baseball bat up for auction at the club’s end-of ...

Pete Rose Up Close: Our Man in Asia Encounters Him Years Ago in Japan — On Edge, Jumpy, Toying With a Bat. The Japanese could hardly believe the ferocity with which Rose played America’s ballgame.

Philadelphia Phillies’ Pete Rose bats during a 1980 baseball game. Rose will make an appearance on the field in Philadelphia next month. Baseball’s career hits leader will be part of Phillies ...

Pete Rose, who won two World ... Rose was at bat. After ball four, he sprinted to first base, something nobody in baseball — at any level — did after drawing a walk. Ford and Mantle laughed.

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.

I have been marooned without electricity for almost a week (thank you – not! – Helene) and yet somehow the word reached me that Pete Rose, professional baseball’s all-time hits leader ...

Pete Rose, baseball’s career ... and Pete Rose is going to get 200 hits and bat .300.” Rose reached 1,000 hits in 1968, 2,000 just five years later and 3,000 just five years after that.

FILE - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds in action at the bat against the Atlanta Braves in Atlanta, Aug. 2, 1978. At left is Atlanta catcher Joe Nolan.

FILE - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds in action at the bat against the Atlanta Braves in Atlanta, Aug. 2, 1978. At left is Atlanta catcher Joe Nolan. (AP Photo, File) ...

Pete Rose graduated from high school in June 1960. He flew to Rochester, New York, two days later, and then rode a bus some 45 miles to Geneva, home of the Reds’ level D minor league team.