Pete Rose: A Hall of Fame Baseball Player.
Pete Rose is one of the best men to ever play baseball. HE is a well respected and high achieving ball player and it is a disgrace that he has not been inducted into the hall of fame. Rose has met the qualifications to be inducted and therefore he should.
Peter Edward Rose was born on April 14, 1942 in Cincinnati, Ohio. When he was a child his father coached him in sports. At age eight, he started to play organized youth baseball. At ten he became a switch-hitter. Rose played second base at Western Hills High School. A Scout for the Reds thought he had great potential and convinced the management to take a chance on him. He was picked up by the Reds right out of high school.
"Rose was no natural talent, but at 5-foot-11 and 200 pounds, he had a body for wear (Carter)." He was built very strong and stocky. Rose was a very versatile player. He could play second, first, third and outfield. He had amazingly sensitive eyes. He could see the spin of the stitches on a ball and identify pitches. He had the ability to remember the traits of pitchers and his own statistics against teams. Every day Rose knew what his challenges were and he knew how he was going to overtake them. He played hard every day and was rewarded with the satisfaction that he had done his job. Rose once said, "I don't mind lazy players, as long as they"re on the other side.".
Rose was always a player of extreme enthusiasm. No matter what happened in the game, if his team won he held his head high. Even if Rose went 0 - 3, he was happy. Whitey Fore nicknamed Pete Rose "Charlie Hustle" for his boundless enthusiasm.
In 1960, his first season as a pro, he batted .277 and led his class D league in errors. This wasn't a great start for Rose, but he worked hard to get better. Rose had no natural talent and he knew it. He worked all the time to improve himself. Rose lifted weights and worked out to become stronger.