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,

Major League Baseball all-star Pete Rose, best known as the leader in all-time hits and games played – as well as his fall from grace for gambling on the game – has died. He was 83. With 4,256 hits over a 24-season career and known as “Charlie Hustle” for the way he ran even when

Rose became baseball’s all-time hit leader in 1985. Four years later he was banned from the sport for life for gambling.