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.

Pete Rose, baseball's all-time leader in hits who was banned from the Hall of Fame after he was caught gambling on baseball games, has died at age 83, the medical examiner in Clark County, Nevada, said on Monday.

When Pete was banned from MLB for life for gambling on the game in 1989, the Hall acted shortly thereafter and effectively made him ineligible for induction. For more than a decade Rose denied he ever bet on baseball during his managing career with the Reds, despite the evidence that said he did repeatedly.