One of the sport’s greatest players, he set a record with 4,256 career hits. But his gambling led to a lifetime ban and kept him out of the Hall of Fame.

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.

Pete Rose, known as Major League Baseballs's hit king who was later banned for betting on games, has died, the Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner confirmed to CBS News. He was 83.