MLB legend Pete Rose has died at the age of 83, according to a report.
Rose, considered to be one of the greatest baseball players in MLB history, is said to have passed away Monday at his home in Las Vegas.
Rose’s agent, Ryan Fiterman, confirmed the news, via TMZ, saying, ‘the family is asking for privacy at this time.’
Rose spent the majority of his baseball career with the Cincinnati Reds but also enjoyed stints with the Philadelphia Phillies and Montreal Expos.
The MLB hit king earned 17 All-Star Game nods, winning three World Series and the 1973 N.L. MVP.
MLB legend Pete Rose has died at the age of 83
He returned to Cincinnati, where he finished his career as a player-manager for the Reds, hanging up his spikes as a player for good in 1986.
However, Rose’s career on the diamond wasn’t without controversy. In 1989, he was banned from baseball by then-MLB commissioner Bart Giamatti after the league determined he’d bet on the sport.
He admitted to gambling on the Cincinnati Reds when he played for, and managed, the team from 1985 until 1987.
An allegation also surfaced in recent years that Rose had an improper sexual relationship with a minor in the 1970s.
In 2017, the Phillies canceled his induction onto the team’s Wall of Fame after a Cincinnati woman said in federal court that she had a sexual relationship with the married Rose that began during his first stint with the Reds in 1973, when she was 14 or 15.
Rose has never been charged with statutory rape and the statute of limitations has expired. Although he has reportedly admitted to the relationship, he has insisted that he believed she was 16 at the time of the affair, making her old enough in the state of Ohio to consent to sexual activity.
In recent years, Rose has made appearances at Reds games in Cincinnati, where he is still regarded as one of the best player’s in team history and one of the city’s favorite home-grown athletes.
Rose’s death is one of several to rock Major League Baseball in 2024, including the passing of Giants legends Willie Mays and Orlando Cepeda.
More to follow.
