Major League Baseball legend Pete Rose has died at the age of 83, the medical examiner in Clark County, Nevada, confirmed to ABC News on Monday.
Pete Rose, Major League Baseball's hit king who then became a pariah for gambling on the game, has died at the age of 83, the medical examiner in Clark County, Nevada, confirmed to ABC News on Monday.
He also won three World Series -- two with Cincinnati's "Big Red Machine" clubs in 1975 and 1976, and a third with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1980. He finally admitted to gambling on Reds games in his 2004 autobiography, "My Prison Without Bars." In"I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988," he told ABC News' Charles Gibson in an exclusive interview that aired Jan. 8, 2004, on "Primetime Thursday." "That was my mistake, not coming clean a lot earlier.""I think what happens is you're, at the time, you're betting football and then what's after football is basketball ...
Even then-President Donald Trump weighed in on the debate in February 2020, tweeting, "He gambled, but only on his team winning, and paid a decades long price. GET PETE ROSE INTO THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME! It's Time." There's little debate over whether his on-field performance merits inclusion in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Years earlier, in 1978, Rose captured attention when he made a run at Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak -- maybe the most vaunted record in sports. Starting on June 14, Rose would record a hit in 44 straight games. The streak finally came to an end on July 19, but 44 games remains the second-longest streak since 1900.
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