Despite being banned from organized baseball for gambling on Reds games in August 1989, Pete Rose is still the game’s greatest hitter and should be remembered as such.

A baseball savant, a gambling addict, a corrupted individual — Rose contained multitudes. But no one loved the game — or damaged it — as much as Charlie Hustle.

Former Major League Baseball star Pete Rose's death at his home in Las Vegas on Monday was due to natural causes, the Clark County coroner's office said. The cause of death of the 83-year-old Rose was determined to be "hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease with a significant condition of diabetes mellitus,

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.