Rose played five seasons in Philly, and is the MLB all-time leader in hits. But in 1989, he was banned from baseball for life ...
That’s Pete Rose, the legendary player whose transgressions both verified and alleged didn’t appear to concern him.
Rose, a Cincinnati native, played 19 seasons with the Reds and 24 in total, collecting an MLB-record 4,256 hits in his career.
No. 4,000 was off the Phillies’ Jerry Koosman in 1984, exactly 21 years to the day after his first hit. He caught up with ...