Although it’s often said that Pete Rose received a “lifetime ban,” baseball’s all-time hits leader was actually declared “permanently ineligible” in 1989.

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,

Controversial baseball legend Pete Rose died on Monday at the age of 83. The hit king is one of the best players to ever play the game, doing it at an extremely