Pete Rose has died

[BigRed]

Still one of my favorite plays by the man....





Like many things, baseball was much more fun before the pussification of our "society".

 

[BigRed]

Maybe now they’ll finally let him in

Don't bet on it.

 

[Bugzilla]

My thought too, now that the commissioner doesn't have to look him in the eyes and shake his hand, and they know he won't get to enjoy it.

Just like Ron Santo.

 

[patience0830]

Baseball in heaven just got sporty. Get 'em Pete.

 

[patience0830]

Kris Kristofferson died today as well. Damn, I feel old.

 

[SheepDog4Life]

RIP Charlie Hustle... first ballot in my eyes

 

[JCSR]

RIP His lifetime ban is now over................

 

[daddyusmaximus]

Rip good sir. Thankfully, I got to see him play once.
The one MLB game I ever went to in my entire life... (as a Cub Scout) was in Cincinnati.

 

[snapping turtle]

Dang. Best hitter in the history of the game. Too bad he never was allowed into the HoF.

He will be now. His lifetime ban has ended.

 

[Trencher]

Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, many fond childhood memories. Rip sir.

 

[tomcat13]

Hated to hear it.
One of the greatest Base-hitters the game will Ever see!
RIP Charlie Hustle

 

[ghuns]

I saw him in Vegas in 2014 he was in a small room on display in a casino charging money for autographs. I felt sorry for him, he had lost his sports bar in Vegas and he did this everyday to make money. You could see on his face he was miserable doing this. I was a big fan of the big red machine when I was a kid. Went to see him and rest of my heroes play ball in Cincinnati along time ago.
RIP Pete

I saw him dozens of times in Vegas. He was often posted up in front of a sports memorabilia store in the mall between Luxor and Mandalay Bay.

Just sitting there waiting to sell somebody an autograph.

I had always heard he could be a raging A-hole, but I finally decided to say something to him. I told him my grandma and grandpa were big Reds fans. He was their favorite player and they were crushed when left and elated when he returned. Thanked him for the amount of joy he brought them. He said, thanks and shook my hand. We BS'd about baseball for a few minutes while I was waiting on a table at a nearby restaurant. He couldn't have been nicer.

 

[Mongo59]

Well, he finally stole home...

He was baseball to me growing up.

 

[SmileDocHill]

Don't bet on it.

Ooof, he went head first into that one. Respect tribute! :-)

 

[El Conquistador]

I saw him dozens of times in Vegas. He was often posted up in front of a sports memorabilia store in the mall between Luxor and Mandalay Bay.

Just sitting there waiting to sell somebody an autograph.

I had always heard he could be a raging A-hole, but I finally decided to say something to him. I told him my grandma and grandpa were big Reds fans. He was their favorite player and they were crushed when left and elated when he returned. Thanked him for the amount of joy he brought them. He said, thanks and shook my hand. We BS'd about baseball for a few minutes while I was waiting on a table at a nearby restaurant. He couldn't have been nicer.

When I saw him in 2014 our international convention for firefighters was out there. Our district Vice President was a Cincinnati firefighter and months in advance reserved Pete’s sports bar for our district meeting because of his ties with Cincinnati, there was about 300 firefighters from 5 states going there. A few days before we got there we find out Pete lost the bar for money issues. Luckily the new owners honored the reservation.

 

[littletommy]

We used to play in an un sanctioned little league tournament in Cincinnati back in the 70s. Played against Pete junior a couple of different times, and all the teams always hoped Pete senior would show up for a game, but he never did. Junior was a couple years younger than the rest of us, but he was a nice kid, and seemed really normal for having such a famous dad.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

We used to play in an un sanctioned little league tournament in Cincinnati back in the 70s. Played against Pete junior a couple of different times, and all the teams always hoped Pete senior would show up for a game, but he never did. Junior was a couple years younger than the rest of us, but he was a nice kid, and seemed really normal for having such a famous dad.

Man, being his kid and named after him to boot... no pressure there, right?

 

[OutdoorDad]

Still one of my favorite plays by the man....





Like many things, baseball was much more fun before the pussification of our "society".

meh....
OBS
He knew he beat the throw.

He did far better things. My take.

 

[littletommy]

Man, being his kid and named after him to boot... no pressure there, right?

He was good too. I believe we were in the 13 and 14 year old division, maybe the next level up, and he would have been 10, maybe 11. He wasn’t a starter, but he did get playing time and held his own for being so much younger.

But yeah, that would have been a pressure cooker for sure.

Looking at google, pete junior is 54 (I’m 58) so it may have been 79 or 80-81 when we played up there, so he might have been 12 years old the last time we played him.

 

[Gunmetalgray]

No telling the number of times we would try imitating this as kids. Legend. RIP.