Cincinnati retired his number 14 in a June 2016 ceremony. The fallout from his gambling scandal damaged his reputation beyond repair, but it's simply not right that the game's all-time hit leader is not in Cooperstown and hopefully that situation can be rectified at some point. Ten years later he won National League MVP honors, and Rose was arguably the biggest reason the Reds won back-to-back World Series titles in '75 and '76. He won three batting titles while with Cincinnati, represented the club in 13 all-star games, won a pair of Gold Gloves and was the NL Rookie of the Year in 1963. Reds, who owned the best overall record in the strike- shortened season yet did. 307/.379/.425 with 152 homers, 1,036 RBI, 601 doubles, and 115 triples. Hume batted another 183 times at the game's top level and never. In 19 seasons with Cincinnati, he slashed. For starters, Rose's 4,256 hits in the big-leagues are the most all-time, and the vast majority of them came as a member of the Reds.

That's a story for another day, so let's stick strictly to his on-the-field resume which is second to none. The Cincinnati Reds need a win today if they want to attempt to split the series against Milwaukee after the Brewers took the first two games of the 4-game series at Great American Ball Park. Pete Rose was without question one of the best pure hitters to ever live, and it's sad that he's now most remembered for betting on baseball as both a player and a manager and getting himself banned from the sport for life.

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