When Pete Rose died last year, obituaries seemed to struggle with the nuance of a great player and a complicated man.

Since the game’s early days, baseball mythology has been constructed — often deliberately — to set itself apart.

Pete Rose was celebrated by the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila), a day after base-ball's career hits leader was posthumously removed from Major League Baseball's permanent ...

In 1989, Rose, one of the game’s most legendary and scandalous players, accepted a permanent spot on baseball’s ineligible ...