Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s hit king who subsequently became a pariah for gambling on the game, has died at the age of 83, the medical examiner in Clark County, Nevada confirmed to ABC News on Monday.

According to the medical examiner, Rose was found at his home by a family member. There were no signs of foul play.

The coroner will conduct an investigation to determine the cause and manner of death.

The medical examiner told ABC News that Rose was not under the care of a doctor when he died, and that the accident scene is under investigation.

The coroner will conduct an investigation to determine the cause and manner of death.

ABC News has reached out to Rose’s representative.

Rose brought a workman’s attitude to the American pastime and won legions of fans for his hustle on the field. By the end of his 24-year career, 19 of which were with the Cincinnati Reds, he held the record for most career hits, as well as games played, at-bats and at-bats. He was also a 17-time All-Star, 1973 NL MVP and 1963 Rookie of the Year.

He also won three World Series: two with Cincinnati’s “Big Red Machine” clubs in 1975 and 1976, and a third with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1980.

But Rose will always be remembered for being banned for life from the MLB in 1989 for betting on games while managing the Reds.

With Rose under suspicion, new MLB Commissioner Bart Giamatti ordered an investigation in April 1989 led by John Dowd, an attorney with the Department of Justice. The damning report was released in June, documenting at least 52 bets on Reds games in 1987. his first season as a sole manager after serving three seasons as a player/manager. According to the Dowd Report, the bets totaled thousands of dollars per day.

Faced with few options, Rose voluntarily accepted placement on baseball’s ineligible list in August 1989. Despite this, Rose continued to deny for more than a decade that he had ever gambled on his own team.

He eventually admitted to betting on Reds games in his 2004 autobiography, “My Prison Without Bars.” In an interview on ABC News promoting the book, he also opened up for the first time.

“I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988,” he told Charles Gibson of ABC News in an exclusive interview that aired January 8, 2004 on “Primetime Thursday”. “That was my fault for not coming clean much sooner.”

He claimed he never bet against his team and said he “wanted to win every game”.

“I think what happens is you bet on football at that point and what comes after football is basketball… and the next thing that comes next is obviously baseball,” Rose said. “It’s just a pattern you’ve fallen into.”

Two years after Rose was banned for life, the Baseball Hall of Fame ruled that no one on the ineligible list would be admitted to the institution.

The controversy over Rose’s suspension and ban from the Hall of Fame has taken on a life of its own and has become a topic that sports fans often debate more than his legendary exploits on the field.

Even then-President Donald Trump weighed in on the debate in February 2020, tweeting, “He gambled, but only on his team’s victory, and paid a decades-long price. GET PETE ROSE INTO THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME! It’s time .”

Rose requested the league be removed from the list in 1992, 1998, 2003, 2015 and 2022, but was denied or received no response each time.

“That was a part of my life that you can’t change. You wish it hadn’t happened, but you can just guarantee yourself that it won’t happen again,” Rose told ABC News in 2004.

There is little debate as to whether his on-field achievements merit induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Rose’s pursuit of the career hits record captivated the nation in 1985. Rose broke Ty Cobb’s hallowed record on September 11, 1985, with a single against the San Diego Padres for his 4,192nd hit. He would play one more season and end his career with 4,256 hits.

Decades later, Rose still tops the career hits list. In fact, only Derek Jeter (3,465), Albert Pujols (3,384) and Paul Molitor (3,319) have come within 1,000 hits of Rose’s record in the time since it was set — and none have seriously challenged the mark.

Years earlier, in 1978, Rose turned heads when he snapped Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak – perhaps the most vaunted record in sports. As of June 14, Rose would record a hit in 44 straight games. The streak finally ended on July 19, but 44 games remains the second-longest streak since 1900.

Rose was married twice and had been in a long-term relationship with model Kiana Kim since 2011. The two appeared on a reality TV show, “Pete Rose: Hits and Mrs.” in 2013. Rose has four children.

Rose’s oldest son, Pete Rose Jr., played more than a decade in the minors and independent baseball, but played just 11 games in the majors with the Reds in 1997. He had two career hits.

Rose never strayed far from baseball despite being on the sport’s ineligible list. His number 14 was retired by the Reds and appeared in the sport’s All-Century Team in 1999, as voted on by the fans. The team was announced at that year’s All-Star Game in Boston and Rose received a standing ovation. Only three non-Hall of Famers are on the list of 30 players, with Roger Clemens and Mark McGwire absent due to allegations of steroid use that surfaced after the list was compiled.

“I owe baseball,” Rose told Gibson in 2004. “Baseball doesn’t owe me anything. I owe baseball. And the only way I can make peace with baseball is to take this negative and somehow turn it into something positive.”

Alex Stone of ABC News contributed to this report.