"Pete's job is to be Pete Rose, " said Joie Casey, president of Hit King Inc.
Let's start here: When Pete Rose was 27 days past his 30th birthday, he had 1, 565 career hits.
His first All-Star appearance came that year, in 1975, as a defensive replacement in left field for Pete Rose.
And he is 372 away from Pete Rose's major-league record total of 4, 256.
At No. 14, Pete Rose's hits or Ernie Banks' or Jim Rice's power?
But we were insulted by the serial defiance of Armstrong and Pete Rose.
Only Pete Rose has also had 10 seasons of 200 or more hits.
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He's one of those guys who will - what was the old think they used to say about Pete Rose?
But the fact is Pete Rose is in the Hall of Fame because he wasn't honest, he was a cheater.
Right at the top, by our analysis: the 1973 Cincinnati Reds of Pete Rose, Johnny Bench and Joe Morgan.
He authored The Dowd Report, a 225 page study on the gambling habits of one, Pete Rose, the league's all-time hits leader.
There were all kinds of signatures on it, though none that he could really recognize except for Joe Morgan and Pete Rose.
Rather than anyone he grew up watching, Harper emulates players his father told him about, like Mantle or, when it comes to home-run trots, Pete Rose.
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Not Pete Rose, not Curt Schilling, not even Babe Ruth.
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Banned from baseball amid World Series fixing and gambling scandals, White Sox great "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and the league's all-time hits leader Pete Rose are barred from even being considered.
The 1975 Cincinnati Reds of Pete Rose and Joe Morgan, winners of 108 games and a world championship, scored more than two full standard deviations above the rest of the league.
Next month, Hunt Auctions will sell off a rare 1903 World Series program, the ball Pete Rose hit for his 4, 000th career hit, and various baseballs signed by Cy Young, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
The just-completed interleague series between the Yankees and Reds in Cincinnati probably had some people reflecting on the 1976 World Series, when the Bombers were swept out in four straight by the Big Red Machine of Pete Rose, Joe Morgan and Johnny Bench.
Leading the list: the Cincinnati Reds of 1973, a powerful group led by Johnny Bench, Pete Rose and Tony Perez that took a tough National League West division over the Dodgers and Giants before getting upset in the NL Championship Series by the New York Mets, three games to two.
Once in the league he rose quickly, working in the 1980s with Commissioner Pete Rozelle, the NFL's visionary founding father, and later as the right-hand man of Rozelle's successor, Paul Tagliabue.
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