Pete Rose, MLB's hit king who was banned from baseball, dies at 83 Rose's cause and manner of death has not yet been determined, a spokesperson for Clark County in Nevada said.
Ichiro Suzuki is about to become the all-time hits leader. Or is he? Pete Rose doesn't think so. Ichiro has 2,977 Major League Baseball hits to go along with his 1,278 hits in nine seasons in Japan.
Rose was Rookie of the Year in 1963, but he started off 0 for 12 with three walks and a hit by pitch before getting his first major league hit, an eighth-inning triple off Pittsburgh’s Bob Friend. It ...