Major League Baseball legend Pete Rose has died. Jeffrey Lenkov, the baseball player legend's attorney, confirmed Rose's death to Rolling Stone Monday, coincidentally the last night of the 2024 MLB regular season. Rose was 83.
The Clark County Medical Examiner's Office also confirmed the news to Rolling Stonealthough it said “no other information is available” yet. An agent for the baseball legend told TMZ, which first reported the news, that Rose's family was “asking for privacy at this time.”
Rose spent 23 years in the MLB, playing a total of 3,562 games, and spending most of his career at the Cincinnati Reds during the Ohio team's golden decade in the Seventies. During his time at the Reds, he won two World Series in 1975 and 1976. He later won the trophy for a third time while playing for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1980. Rose's legendary No. 14 was retired by the Reds in June 2016.
“The Reds are heartbroken to learn of the passing of baseball legend Pete Rose,” the Cincinnati team wrote in tribute to the baseball legend.
Rose was a seventeen-time All-Star, and earned the National League Rookie of the Year award when he debuted with Cincinnati in 1963. He ended his career as a player with the Reds in 1986 when he juggled being a manager and coach. He continued his career as a manager through 1989.
Rose's career was not without controversy, however. The baseball player-turned-manager was banned from the sport in August 1989 after being accused of gambling on games while managing and playing for the team. (He later admitted to betting in 2004.)
Among his MLB records, Rose hit a whooping 4,256 hits, including 3,215 singles from 15,890 career plate appearances. Along with playing multiple seasons for the Phillies and Reds, Rose spent a year with the Montreal Expos in 1984.
