Tony Perez, who played 13 seasons with Pete Rose, said the baseball great "didn't look too good" when he saw him a day before his death.

Banished baseball great Pete Rose has died. The longtime Cincinnati Red was the 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.

Baseball great Pete Rose, who still holds the record for the most hits in Major League Baseball history, has died at the age of 83, Sports Illustrated has confirmed. (TMZ first reported the news.) Rose died Monday at his Las Vegas home,

Longtime Pete Rose teammate Tony Perez said MLB’s hit king “wasn’t him at all” the day before he died Monday at the age of 83. Perez, who played alongside Rose with the Reds for 16 seasons, saw his friend Sunday during an autographs show in Tennessee.

Pete Rose was at a sports card show in Franklin, Tennessee, near Nashville on Sunday interacting with many of his fans before he died Monday.

Baseball icon Pete Rose died from natural causes rooted in high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries, a coroner determined. Nevada’s Clark County Coroner Melanie Rouse revealed that diabetes was a contributing factor.