Pete Rose, a great player with a controversial legacy, rewrote baseball history but reached Cooperstown only as a vendor selling his autograph. Rose, who died Sept. 30 at age 83, will be remembered as the career leader in hits (4,256) and 17-time All-Star who also managed his hometown Cincinnati Reds for five years.

He was banned from the sport he loved and never made the Hall of Fame in his lifetime. But Rose, who died at 83, was confident in his legacy. “I’m the biggest winner in the history of sports.”

One of the sport’s greatest players, he set a record with 4,256 career hits. But his gambling led to a lifetime ban and kept him out of the Hall of Fame.

Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hit king and the Cincinnati Reds icon whose signature gritty hustle couldn’t outpace the gambling transgressions and obfuscation that kept him out of the National Baseball Hall of Fame,

Pete Rose, the Cincinnati Reds legend and baseball's all-time hits leader who was banished from baseball for betting on the sport, has died at the age of 83.

Baseball legend Pete Rose died Monday at the age of 83. Rose’s complicated legacy includes being MLB’s all-time hits leader but being banned from the league for gambling on games. He died Monday morning in his Las Vegas home,