Baseball legend Pete Rose has died at the age of 83

Controversial baseball player Pete Rose has died at the age of 83. This is evident from a report by TMZ.

Rose’s agent, Ryan Fiterman, confirmed the news to TMZ, but said the family “requests privacy at this time.”

Also ABC News confirmed Rose’s death with the medical examiner in Clark County, Nevada, on Monday.

No cause of death was officially announced.

Rose, who played in the major leagues from 1963 to 1986, primarily for the Cincinnati Reds during their Big Red Machine era, was banned for gambling on the sport. He still holds records for goals (4,256) and games played (3,562).

Due to an uncle’s connections, the Cincinnati native was drafted by the Reds despite barely being scouted.

He took advantage of the opportunity and became the National League Rookie of the Year in 1963, according to Cincinnati.com. During his more than two decades in the sport, Rose was named an All-Star seventeen times and was also named the National League’s Most Valuable Player in 1973.

Even though Rose played more than 500 games at five different positions, he still won two Gold Gloves and three batting titles. In 1978, he equaled a nearly 100-year-old National League record when he scored a goal in 44 games.

He was nicknamed “Charlie Hustle” because of the way he ran to first base even when it appeared to be a routine out.

Rose won back-to-back World Series titles in 1975 and 1976 as a member of the Reds’ Big Red Machine and was the Series MVP in 1975.

He also won another series in 1980 as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies, but Rose spent most of that decade trying to break Ty Cobb’s record for most hits, which he did in 1985 as player-manager for the Cincinnati Reds.

But Rose was banned from baseball just four years later for betting on games while managing the Reds.

Rose denied any wrongdoing, but an investigation found that the “accumulated testimony of witnesses, along with the evidence and telephone records, revealed his extensive gambling activities during the 1985, 1986 and 1987 baseball seasons.”

Rose was banned from baseball for life, a decree that also kept him out of the Baseball Hall of Fame, a longtime dream of his.

Rose repeatedly tried to get each acting baseball commissioner to overturn the ban and vote him into the Hall of Fame, but he was thwarted each time.

For years, Rose denied betting on games, but he admitted wrongdoing in a 2004 autobiography, although he insisted he had never bet against the Reds.

In his 2019 memoir, “Play Hungry,” Rose said he didn’t think betting on baseball was “morally wrong,” but that he didn’t do it the right way.

“There are legal ways, and there are illegal ways, and betting on baseball the way I did was against the rules of baseball,” he said, according to The Associated Press.

Despite the lifetime ban, Rose was allowed to take the field during a ceremony in 1999 as a member of the MLB All-Century Team.

Rose, whose two marriages ended in divorce, is survived by five children and a fiancée.