I was a huge fan of Charlie Hustle. Not so much for Pete Rose. The two personas were the same baseball player, but I ...
But the christening of Rose as "Charlie Hustle" was anything but complimentary. In a spring training game against New York ...
Pete Rose makes for a fascinating on-field study -- a player whose reputation changed even as his game stayed the same.
MLB's all-time hit leader, Pete Rose, had one of the most well-known baseball nicknames in history. Here's how Rose earned ...
Pete Rose: "My dad said the quicker you get to first base, the quicker you go around the bases. I played the way I was ...
Yankees legends Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford referred to Rose as "Charlie Hustle" after a spring training game in 1963, just ...
- Philadelphia Phillies' Pete Rose slides to third base during a baseball game against the New York Mets in Philadelphia, ...
A baseball savant, a gambling addict, a corrupted individual — Rose contained multitudes. But no one loved the game — or ...
Former teammates of Pete Rose's featured in the C Reds' tribute video include Eric Davis, Joe Morgan and Johnny Bench.
Baseball's all-time hit leader and most notorious gambler leaves a complicated legacy that sports media, fans and the culture ...
Since Pete Rose died last Monday of natural causes, his complicated legacy has been circling the bases in my head. It’s like separating a baseball from its seams. At some point, it just unravels.
I admired the way he played the game, but his off-the-field mistakes were his downfall.