RIP Pete Rose aka: Charlie Hustle

[The Bobster]

I grew up listening to the Dodgers on KTAR as a kid, and was a huge Vin Skully fan, but not a Dodgers fan.

I was a true frontrunner - I loved the 1972-73-74 Oakland A's and then the Big Red Machine.

[SunsRIt]

Reinstated! Let's hope they finally put him in the hall of fame.

[TOO]

Reinstated! Let's hope they finally put him in the hall of fame.

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[Charlie Smithy!]

Horrible human being. Great singles hitter.

He also hit on Singles

[Charlie Smithy!]

There were no Diamondbacks when I was growing and my mom's family moved to Arizona from Cincinnati in the '60s so I grew up a Reds fan. Pete Rose was a great player nobody went harder that he did. My grandparents had dinner with him once and said he really was a jerk. As a baseball player he will be missed, as a person, probably not so much.

My mom's family came out from Ohio in the 50s but that's not why I was a Reds fan in my youth. But like you said, there were no Diamondbacks when we were growing up and the Reds happened to be on TV a lot locally here in Arizona. Not only that, they were amazing in the Big Red Machine days and I just glommed onto them at the time. That was a fun team to watch.

I done did learned a new word