Pete Rose extended his hand as soon as I knocked on the door of Room 1154 at the Essex House, a bright smile on his face, bedecked in a red sweater and a close-cropped haircut that looked straight ...

Unless he played for your team, Rose was the kind of guy everyone hated because of his arrogance, cockiness and awful bowl haircut. Pittsburgh Pirates fans loved to hate Pete Rose.

Pete Rose, who died Monday at age 83, ... To me, he was a narcissist with a bad haircut, decades before narcissism and bad haircuts got you into the Oval Office.

Pete Rose extended his hand as soon as I knocked on the door of Room 1154 at the Essex House, a bright smile on his face, bedecked in a red sweater and a close-cropped haircut that looked straight ...