He was a longtime womanizer whose two marriages ended in divorce and who acknowledged fathering a child out of wedlock. In 1990, he pleaded guilty to two charges of filing false income tax returns and ...

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, 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, 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, has died. He was 83.

FILE - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds in action against the Atlanta Braves in Atlanta, on Aug. 2, 1978. (AP Photo, File) Rose was 44 and the team’s player-manager.

Pete Rose, baseball’s banned hits leader, has died at age 83 ... He was a longtime womanizer whose two marriages ended in divorce and who acknowledged fathering a child out of wedlock.

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.