Pete Rose, a great player with a controversial legacy, rewrote baseball history but reached Cooperstown only as a vendor selling his autograph. Rose, who died Sept. 30 at age 83, will be remembered as the career leader in hits (4,256) and 17-time All-Star who also managed his hometown Cincinnati Reds for five years.

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,

Larry Shenk still remembers the day inside Veterans Stadium in 1981. Shenk, the longtime Philadelphia Phillies head of public relations, walked down the hallway with Pete Rose right after "Charlie Hustle" broke Stan Musial's record all-time National League hits record.