Rose was 48 and initially denied the allegations. I was 27 and crushed. This is when Charlie Hustle became a myth to me, and ...

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.

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 ...

- 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 ...

Baseball's all-time hit leader and most notorious gambler leaves a complicated legacy that sports media, fans and the culture ...

I admired the way he played the game, but his off-the-field mistakes were his downfall.

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.

Larry Shenk still remembers the day inside Veterans Stadium in 1981. Shenk, the longtime Philadelphia Phillies head of public ...

Here is a look back at when Pete Rose, baseball’s all-time hit leader, visited the Royals as a free agent in the 1970s ...

The Hit King never made it to baseball’s Hall of Fame. Did a stubborn, self-inflicted saga need to play out this way?