Baseball’s all-time hits leader has died, his agent confirmed Monday evening to the celebrity-news site TMZ.
Pete Rose was 83.

“The family is asking for privacy at this time,” Ryan Fiterman of Fiterman Sports said.

Mr. Rose reportedly died at his home in Las Vegas. The agent did not specify a cause of death.
Despite garnering a record 4,256 hits over 24 seasons, mostly with the Cincinnati Reds, more than any player in baseball history, Mr. Rose is not a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

He was banned from the sport by Commissioner Bart Giamatti in 1989 for betting about baseball and for lying about it for years, denials he continued until the mid-2000s.
His other honors i …