PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Officials on Tuesday revealed more details about the death of MLB all-time leader Pete Rose, who was banned from baseball.

Rose, 83, died Monday at his home in Las Vegas, according to the Clark County coroner. His cause of death was determined to be hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Rose also suffered from a serious condition of diabetes mellitus, officials said.

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Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, or ASCVD, is a heart condition in which the arteries that carry oxygen and nutrients to the heart and the rest of the body become thickened, according to the Mayo Clinic. Hypertension is a condition that causes high blood pressure and is a risk factor for heart disease.

For fans who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s, no player was more exciting than the Cincinnati Reds’ number 14, “Charlie Hustle.”

At the dawn of artificial surfaces, divisional play and free agency, Rose was old-fashioned, a conscious throwback to the early days of baseball. Millions could never forget him, crouched and frowning at the plate, running at full speed to first even after taking a walk or sprinting to the next base and ducking his head in the bag.

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In Philadelphia, Rose made four All-Star appearances and helped the Phillies to one of their two world championships during his five seasons from 1979-83.

The old Cincinnati Red was the leader in baseball hits (4,256), breaking his hero Ty Cobb’s 4,191 and demonstrating his excellence regardless of the fame that followed. The total was so extraordinary that you could average 200 hits for twenty years and still come up short.

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But despite his historic achievements and Hall of Fame dreams, Rose was expelled in 1989 after a Major League Baseball investigation found that he had bet on baseball, including on his own team.

On March 20, 1989, Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth (soon to be succeeded by A. Bartlett Giamatti) announced that his office was conducting a “full investigation into serious allegations” about Rose. Reports emerged that he relied on a network of bookmakers, friends and others in the gambling industry to place bets on baseball games, including some involving the Reds.

Rose denied any wrongdoing, but the investigation found that the “accumulated testimony of witnesses, together with the evidence and telephone records, revealed extensive gambling activities by Pete Rose in connection with professional baseball and in particular the Cincinnati Reds games during the 1985 games bring to light. 1986 and 1987 Baseball Seasons.”

Rose’s story eventually changed when he admitted in a 2004 autobiography that he had bet on baseball, including Reds games, although he said he had never bet against his team.

‘I don’t think betting is morally wrong. I don’t even think betting on baseball is morally wrong,” Rose wrote in “Play Hungry,” a memoir released in 2019. ‘There are legal ways, and there are illegal ways. , and betting on baseball the way I did was against the rules of baseball.”

Despite admitting to the betting, Rose was never admitted to the Hall during his lifetime, although he did receive 41 votes in 1992 (when 323 votes were needed), around the time the Hall formally ruled that those who left the game were excluded, could never be excluded. chosen.

Shortly after the ban took effect, Rose was convicted of tax evasion and spent several months in prison. Also, in 2017, an unidentified woman alleged in a court document that Rose had a sexual relationship with her for several years in the 1970s, starting before she turned 16. Rose acknowledged he had a sexual relationship with the woman, but said he believed it started when she was 16 — which is the legal age of consent in Ohio.

Rose’s career is well represented in Cooperstown. Items in the Baseball Hall of Fame include his helmet from his 1973 MVP season; the bat he used in 1978 when his hitting streak reached 44 games; and the shoes he wore in 1985, the day he became the game’s hits leader.

ESPN and Associated Press contributed to this report.