Pete Rose In Sports

Big time hollywood actors and actress, Grammy-winning musicians or artists are all household names. Celebrities are consistently praised for their talents, but a lot of them are drug users, alcoholics or criminals. Fame has a way of covering crime and helping people to look past a man’s flaws and see them for their talents. The only art form that this is not the case is in sports, in sports, a man can be one of the best baseball players of all time, play for 24 seasons, collect over 4,000 hits and make a mistake that will keep that mans name out of baseball for the rest of time. This tragedy happened unfairly to a man who gave his all for the sport that turned its back to him. Charlie Hustle the man who embodied everything fans and managers love about baseball. Pete Rose was one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He was a man every kid looked up to he was a hero, and every dad in America wanted their son to be just like him. Pete Rose played 24 seasons, most of those seasons were with his hometown Cincinnati Reds. He was a 17x all-star, 3x World Series champion, 2x Gold Glover along with many more awards. On March 6th, 1989 commissioner Giamatti launched the investigation of Pete Rose under the …show more content…
70 years earlier in the as the leaves were changing colors and the cold air of winter crept into the start of October, two teams were set to play in the World Series. The Chicago White Sox and the team that Pete Rose grew up to play for the Cincinnati Reds. The White Sox of Chicago were a dominant team that put up many runs and wound up winning 88 games lead by the powerful southern slugger Joseph Walker Jackson. “Shoeless” as he was nicknamed lead the team in batting with an average of .351. In 1919 The White Sox were heavy favorites to win the World Series over the Reds had they not been this story would have never been