LAS VEGAS (AP) — Pete Rose, MLB’S all-time hits leader who was banned from baseball for gambling on the game, has died at 83. Rose won an MVP award and earned 17 All-Star selections during his 24-year MLB career from 1963-1986. He played 19 seasons with the Cincinnati Reds, five with the Philadelphia Phillies and one with the Montreal Expos.

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.

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.