Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hit king and the Cincinnati Reds icon whose signature gritty hustle couldn’t outpace the gambling transgressions and obfuscation that kept him out of the National Baseball Hall of Fame,

Rose, who was 83, collected 4,256 hits, the most in MLB history, across a 24-year playing career spent mostly with his hometown Reds. But while serving as Reds manager in 1989, he received baseball’s ultimate penalty for violating the sport’s most sacred rule: he placed bets on his own team.