Pete Rose, who died Monday at age 83, could hit a baseball like nobody else, but his life away from the game was anything but a big hit.

Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hit king and the Cincinnati Reds icon whose signature gritty hustle couldn’t outpace the gambling transgressions and obfuscation that kept him out of the National Baseball Hall of Fame,

"Charlie Hustle" had a hard-nosed playing style but was banned from baseball in 1989 for illegally betting on the sport.