Rose was one of baseball’s greats – a winning-obsessed sparkplug who topped MLB’s all-time hit list with 4,256 over a 24-season career.
It wasn’t until 2004 that Rose publicly admitted betting on baseball and the Reds, though he denied ever betting against his own team.
Sometimes, on the weekend of baseball Hall of Fame inductions in Cooperstown, New York, he also would hold autograph sessions at a nearby bookstore.
While Cooperstown didn’t admit him into its Hall of Fame, the Reds got him into theirs with the commissioner’s permission.
That was the perfect way to capture Rose, said Johnny Bench, the Hall of Fame catcher.
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