Legendary sportscaster Jim Gray remembers MLB great Pete Rose

Pete Rose transfixed Major League Baseball audiences for 24 years crossed 3 antithetic organizations arsenic helium acceptable all-time records for hits, at-bats and games played.

The Clark County Coroner successful Nevada confirmed to Fox News connected Monday that Rose had died astatine the property of 83. The origin of decease was not instantly known. As connection astir his decease trickled retired to the world, tributes and remembrances poured in.

"Charlie Hustle," arsenic helium was called successful his glory days with the Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos, was remembered arsenic a polarizing fig successful the shot satellite who seemingly gave it his each whether helium played successful the afternoon, evening oregon successful accumulation games.

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Philadelphia Phillies' Pete Rose slides to 3rd basal during a shot crippled against the New York Mets successful Philadelphia connected June 3, 1981. (AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy, File)

"Dogged, determined, relentless, competitor, vicious rival with what helium did to Ray Fosse during the All-Star Game successful a crippled that possibly mattered backmost then," legendary sportscaster Jim Gray told Fox News Digital erstwhile asked to picture the rival Rose was for the shot instrumentality who is much successful tune with the stars of today. "I deliberation helium played and cared astir the results. He cared astir his idiosyncratic results. He cared astir his squad results and helium was aggressive. The fans loved him. They loved that helium showed up for enactment each time and gave it his all. And to my knowledge, what we saw of connected the tract was his pursuit to win."

Gray recalled immoderate of his archetypal memories of Rose connected the tract erstwhile helium was a broadcaster for Phillies pre-game shows. Rose played successful Philadelphia from 1979 to the mediate of the 1983 season, erstwhile helium was traded to the Expos.

The greatness helium brought connected the tract would yet beryllium overshadowed during his clip arsenic the Reds’ manager by a gambling ungraded not seen successful the athletics since the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.

Rose was questioned successful February 1989 astir whether helium had gambled connected shot and, astatine the time, lone admitted to making bets connected football, hoops and equine racing and vehemently denied betting connected baseball. Some of the allegations were elaborate successful a Sports Illustrated communicative which sparked lawyer John M. Dowd to behaviour an probe and present it to then-Commissioner Bart Giamatti.

Dowd’s study was submitted to Giamatti successful May 1989 and published successful June 1989. The study alleged that Rose had stake connected astatine slightest 52 Reds games successful 1987.

Pete Rose died connected Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Rose yet agreed to voluntarily beryllium placed connected baseball’s ineligible database with the enactment that helium could use for reinstatement. Gray told Fox News Digital that Rose and Giamatti wanted to fig retired however helium could get backmost into the game, but Rose’s lawyer, Reuven Katz, did not privation his lawsuit to admit to gambling connected shot and instrumentality the woody that was being offered – which included Rose seeking extended assistance for addiction and rehabilitation.

According to Gray, Dowd told him that Katz said to Giamatti, "Peter’s a legend." To which Giamatti replied, "No, baseball’s the legend."

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Rose applied for reinstatement successful 1992, 1998, 2003, 2015, 2020 and 2022. However, each commissioner, Fay Vincent, Bud Selig and Rob Manfred, either ne'er acted connected it oregon outright denied Rose’s requests. Being connected the ineligible database kept Rose from being successful the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Rose’s enactment seemed to beryllium divided among legends successful the game. Ted Williams said successful 2000 helium did not judge Rose should beryllium successful the Hall Fame.

"I consciousness atrocious for Pete Rose, but helium committed the cardinal misdeed of baseball. He gambled," helium told The New York Times.

Former Philadelphia Phillies subordinate Pete Rose waves to fans during an alumni time connected Aug. 7, 2022 successful Philadelphia.  (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Mike Schmidt conceded successful 2017 that Rose would not get into the Hall of Fame but wondered wherefore the hitting instrumentality ne'er got the "same level of forgiveness" different guys person erstwhile it came to performance-enhancing drugs, according to the Philly Voice.

Years later, Rose admitted to betting connected shot successful an autobiography contempt repeated denials – including 1 successful a celebrated 1999 interrogation with Gray astatine Turner Field erstwhile helium was honored arsenic portion of the All-Century Team.

Additionally, arsenic sports gambling became much prevalent crossed the United States, Manfred made wide that reinstating Rose would beryllium "an unacceptable risk."

Gray, who wrote astir Rose successful his book, "Talking to GOATs: The Moments You Remember and the Stories You Never Heard," said helium did not deliberation it was unusual that Rose was inactive ineligible adjacent with baseball’s adjacent ties to gambling.

"No, I don’t find that strange," Gray told Fox News Digital. "The rules were the rules and the rules were applied to him based connected the conditions astatine the clip that this was going on. He signed his ain banishment from shot with the accidental to reapply and nary of those applications were successful.

Former Cincinnati Reds subordinate Pete Rose waves to fans aft being introduced during the Reds Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony connected July 15, 2023, successful Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

"So, helium knew the conditions, and helium agreed to those conditions. And conscionable due to the fact that the times person changed and things person changed doesn’t change successful immoderate mode the main cardinal issue. And that is immoderate progressive manager, player, oregon anybody successful an authoritative capableness progressive successful shot tin ever gamble connected the sport. No athletics tin ever judge that, and if caught doing so, past the punishment has to beryllium severe."

Gray added that helium inactive thought Rose deserved to beryllium successful the hallowed halls of Cooperstown but with an mentation astir his wrongdoings.

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"Having said each that and knowing that the Hall of Famer is coupled with being banned from shot and nary gambling. We don’t unrecorded successful the Soviet Union. And you can’t erase a man’s records. And what helium did connected the tract is worthy of the Hall of Fame due to the fact that helium had much hits than anybody, and helium was prolific astatine that. And the plaque and the grant never, obviously, came during his life. If they were to bash it posthumously, possibly it should bespeak that helium was banned from shot and the crushed and the crushed wherefore connected the plaque – for gambling. But helium should beryllium successful the Hall of Fame. You conscionable can’t accidental it didn’t exist."

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