Rose became baseball’s all-time hit leader in 1985. Four years later he was banned from the sport for life for gambling.

Although it’s often said that Pete Rose received a “lifetime ban,” baseball’s all-time hits leader was actually declared “permanently ineligible” in 1989.

Pete Rose, baseball’s career hits leader and fallen idol who undermined his historic achievements and Hall of Fame dreams by gambling on the game he loved and once embodied, has died. Stephanie Wheatley,