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SN 140 Moments: No. 119 - Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's all-time hit record originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
Not many people loved being on a baseball field more than Pete Rose. For most of his 24 major league seasons, he played in every game his body and manager would allow, appearing in at least 162 games eight times — including in 1982 when he was 41 years old.
Along the way, Rose came to the plate 15,890 times in 3,562 games, both the highest totals of any MLB player. As Rose reached his mid 40s and returned to his hometown Cincinnati Reds, his pursuit of one of the game’s immortal numbers took center stage. Now a player-manager, Rose kept writing his own name on the lineup card late in the 1985 season as he inched closer to Ty Cobb’s record of 4,191 career hits.
The moment finally arrived on Sept. 11 of that year. After going 0-for-4 the previous night before a packed Riverfront Stadium, Rose got the drama out of the way quickly, lining a first-inning single to left-center off Padres starter Eric Show.
With that, Rose became baseball’s Hit King — a title he has never relinquished and likely never will, even as subsequent gambling scandals diluted his unquestioned achievements on the field into one of the more complicated legacies of any sports superstar.
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