Pete Rose

PeteRose

13. Pete Rose (1963-1986) batted .303 with 4,256 hits. He left the game as its all-time leader in hits. He won three National League batting titles before being banned from baseball. Rose is the best player to not be in the Hall of Fame

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FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2015, file photo, former baseball player and manager Pete Rose speaks during a news conference in Las Vegas. A woman said she had a sexual relationship with Rose in the 1970s, starting when she was 14 or 15 years old, according to her sworn testimony submitted to a court Monday, July 31, 2017, in a federal defamation lawsuit Rose filed in 2016 against John Dowd, the lawyer whose investigation got Rose kicked out of Major League Baseball for gambling. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File) **FILE**

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Pete Rose played in MLB from 1963 to 1986, and managed from 1984 to 1989. Three years after he retired as an active player, Rose agreed to permanent ineligibility from baseball amidst accusations that he gambled on baseball games while playing for and managing the Reds, including claims that he bet on his own team. On April 20, 1990, Rose pleaded guilty to two charges of filing false income tax returns not showing income he received from selling autographs and memorabilia, and from horse racing winnings. On July 19, Rose was sentenced to five months in the medium security Prison Camp at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, and fined $50,000.

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FILE - In this June 24, 2016, file photo, former Cincinnati Reds player Pete Rose holds his place marker during a ceremony to honor the 1976 World Series champion team, before the Reds' baseball game against the San Diego Padres in Cincinnati. Rose has appealed directly to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in an effort to restore his eligibility to be elected. In a seven-page letter to the Hall's president on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, Rose's longtime attorney Raymond Genco makes the case that the career hits leader's ban from baseball for gambling in 1989 was not intended to make him ineligible for the Hall of Fame. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

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Former baseball player and manager Pete Rose speaks at a news conference, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015, in Las Vegas, after Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred announced Monday that he had rejected Rose's plea for reinstatement. Rose agreed to the ban in August 1989 after an investigation found that he had bet on the game while he was a manager for the Cincinnati Reds. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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Pete Rose is introduced before the MLB All-Star baseball game, Tuesday, July 14, 2015, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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FILE - In this July 26, 2011, file photo, former Cincinnati Reds player Pete Rose signs autographs at the Collectors Den in at a mall in Indianapolis. Rose has submitted a new request to be reinstated to baseball, according to new Commissioner Rob Manfred. After meeting with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday, March 16, 2015, Manfred said "I do have a formal request from Pete. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Charlie Nye, File) NO SALES

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FILE - In this July 26, 2011, file photo, former Cincinnati Reds player Pete Rose signs autographs at the Collectors Den in at a mall in Indianapolis. Rose has submitted a new request to be reinstated to baseball, according to new Commissioner Rob Manfred. After meeting with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday, March 16, 2015, Manfred said "I do have a formal request from Pete. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Charlie Nye, File) NO SALES

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Pete Rose was banned by then-commissioner Bart Giamatti in 1989 for betting on games while he was the Cincinnati Reds' manager. He is baseball's all-time hits leader with 4,256.

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FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2009, file photo, former baseball player Pete Rose watches an NBA basketball game between the Indiana Pacers and the Cleveland Cavaliers in Indianapolis. Court records show Rose has filed for divorce from his wife of nearly 27 years, Carol. The 69-year-old Rose cited irreconcilable differences for the split, but his petition did not offer any additional details. A phone message left for his attorney, Joseph Mannis, was not immediately returned. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)