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Peter Edward Rose
Cincinnati Reds
Second Base
Born: April 14, 1941, Cincinnati, OH
Signed: Signed by the Cincinnati Reds as an amateur free agent, July 8, 1960
Major League Teams: Cincinnati Reds 1963-1978; Philadelphia Phillies 1979-1983; Montreal Expos 1984; Cincinnati Reds 1984-1986
As a Manager: Cincinnati Reds 1984-1989
Major League Baseball's all-time leader in games played (3,562), plate appearances (15,890), at-bats (14,053) and hits (4,256), Pete Rose was permanently banned from the game he loves in 1989 for his gambling activities. Rose was a spark plug player from the start, winning the National League Rookie of the Year award in 1963. He was a 17-time All-Star, the league's MVP in 1973 and a two-time Gold Glove winner. Rose won the league's batting title three times (1968, 1969, 1973) and led the league in hits a staggering seven times. A versatile player on defense, he helped lead the Reds to the World Series four times as his club won it all in back-to-back years in 1975 and 1976. Rose spent stints as the team's regular second baseman, left fielder, right fielder and third baseman. He was the World Series MVP in 1975, after hitting .370 in the seven game victory over the Red Sox. Rose left the Reds via free agency following the 1978 season, signing with the Phillies and guiding that club to its first World Championship title in 1980. He returned to the Reds in 1984 as their player-manager, and surpassed Ty Cobb as the game's all-time hits leader on September 11, 1985, with a single to left off the Padres' Eric Show.
Rose retired as a player following the 1986 season, and would continue to manage the Reds until his ban from baseball on August 24, 1989. Despite numerous reinstatement efforts, his ban has not been lifted as of yet, resulting in his exile from baseball's Hall of Fame. In the years that followed the ban, Rose's troubles mounted and he served five months in prison in 1990 for tax evasion charges. He was selected as an outfielder on the MLB All-Century Team in 1999 and the Reds retired his #14 in 2016, after receiving permission to do so from the commissioner's office. Rose owns a .303 lifetime average and he's ranked 6th on the all-time runs scored list with 2,165, and 2nd on the all-time doubles list with 746. In recent years, he's been ubiquitous at baseball card shows across the country and my son Doug and I briefly met Charlie Hustle, The Hit King in 2015.
Building the Set
October 3, 2021 from San Diego, CA (Kit Young Cards) - Card #354
I wasn't exactly surprised by what my family gave me for my birthday as I purchased the gift myself from Kit Young Cards in mid-September. Still, it was fun to open the bubble mailer on the morning of my actual birthday as my wife and two sons feigned knowledge of knowing exactly what they had gifted me. Adding this card let me check off one of the bigger cards from the set's third series and the set overall. In terms of Big cards remaining to be added, I'm down to a Big Five - Mickey Mantle (#350), which I've already decided will be the last card I add to our set, Willie Mays (#250), Sandy Koufax (#300), the Catfish Hunter rookie card (#526) and the Tony Perez rookie card (#581). As I write this, we're at 62% completion for the set and I'm starting to think it may be possible to complete the set or come close to completing the set in 2022.
The Card / Reds Team Set
As a Phillies fan who grew up watching Mike Schmidt, Steve Carlton (#477) and Rose in the early 1980s, it feels great to add this card to our collection. The 12-year-old me would be amazed this is now in our possession given I first viewed the card in miniature form way back in 1986 when Topps featured a complete run of Rose's flagship cards to kick off its 1986 set. Pretty cool indeed. Rose is wearing a Reds away uniform here, with Cincinnati spelled out across the jersey's front. The cartoon on the back highlights his Rookie of the Year win.
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October 3, 2021 from San Diego, CA (Kit Young Cards) - Card #354
I wasn't exactly surprised by what my family gave me for my birthday as I purchased the gift myself from Kit Young Cards in mid-September. Still, it was fun to open the bubble mailer on the morning of my actual birthday as my wife and two sons feigned knowledge of knowing exactly what they had gifted me. Adding this card let me check off one of the bigger cards from the set's third series and the set overall. In terms of Big cards remaining to be added, I'm down to a Big Five - Mickey Mantle (#350), which I've already decided will be the last card I add to our set, Willie Mays (#250), Sandy Koufax (#300), the Catfish Hunter rookie card (#526) and the Tony Perez rookie card (#581). As I write this, we're at 62% completion for the set and I'm starting to think it may be possible to complete the set or come close to completing the set in 2022.
The Card / Reds Team Set
As a Phillies fan who grew up watching Mike Schmidt, Steve Carlton (#477) and Rose in the early 1980s, it feels great to add this card to our collection. The 12-year-old me would be amazed this is now in our possession given I first viewed the card in miniature form way back in 1986 when Topps featured a complete run of Rose's flagship cards to kick off its 1986 set. Pretty cool indeed. Rose is wearing a Reds away uniform here, with Cincinnati spelled out across the jersey's front. The cartoon on the back highlights his Rookie of the Year win.
As far as I can tell, the card has only been reprinted once as it was included within Baseball Cards Magazine as a "Repli-Card" in 1985.
1965 Season
This was Rose's first superstar year, as he made his first All-Star team and led the league in hits with 209. He finished sixth in the league's MVP voting. Rose started all 162 games for the Reds at second base and either was the team's lead-off hitter or batted second in the line-up. He batted .312 for the year, the first of his 15 seasons of hitting .300 or better. The Reds finished in fourth place in the National League, costing manager Dick Sisler (#158) his job at the end of the season.
Phillies Career
Rose was my first favorite Phillies player, and his 1979 Burger King Phillies card was the first baseball card I ever clearly remember seeing. The Phillies won the Rose free agency lottery on December 5, 1978, signing him to a then-record four-year, $3.2 million contract. With Schmidt at third, Rose moved to first base and he'd prove to be the final piece to the puzzle for the Phillies as the club advanced to and won the World Series in 1980. He was an All-Star while in Philadelphia four times between 1979 and 1982, leading the league in doubles in 1980 with 42 and in hits in 1981 with 140. Rose, now 42, helped the Phillies reach the World Series again in 1983, although he suffered through one of the worst seasons of his career. Towards the end of the 1983 season, Rose was benched by manager Paul Owens in favor of giving Len Matuszek more playing time at first. His last at-bat with the team came during Game 5 of the 1983 World Series. Rose went 2 for 4 in that game, as the Orioles prevailed, 5-0, to give them the World Series title.
1965 Season
This was Rose's first superstar year, as he made his first All-Star team and led the league in hits with 209. He finished sixth in the league's MVP voting. Rose started all 162 games for the Reds at second base and either was the team's lead-off hitter or batted second in the line-up. He batted .312 for the year, the first of his 15 seasons of hitting .300 or better. The Reds finished in fourth place in the National League, costing manager Dick Sisler (#158) his job at the end of the season.
Rose was my first favorite Phillies player, and his 1979 Burger King Phillies card was the first baseball card I ever clearly remember seeing. The Phillies won the Rose free agency lottery on December 5, 1978, signing him to a then-record four-year, $3.2 million contract. With Schmidt at third, Rose moved to first base and he'd prove to be the final piece to the puzzle for the Phillies as the club advanced to and won the World Series in 1980. He was an All-Star while in Philadelphia four times between 1979 and 1982, leading the league in doubles in 1980 with 42 and in hits in 1981 with 140. Rose, now 42, helped the Phillies reach the World Series again in 1983, although he suffered through one of the worst seasons of his career. Towards the end of the 1983 season, Rose was benched by manager Paul Owens in favor of giving Len Matuszek more playing time at first. His last at-bat with the team came during Game 5 of the 1983 World Series. Rose went 2 for 4 in that game, as the Orioles prevailed, 5-0, to give them the World Series title.
Rose was released by the Phillies on October 19, 1983, and he'd somewhat surprisingly sign with the Expos. In 745 games with the Phillies, Rose batted .291 with 826 hits. He was set to be inducted into the Phillies Wall of Fame in 2017, but the club cancelled the induction a week before the ceremony when news came to light of Rose's sexual relationship with a minor during the 1970s.
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First Mainstream Card: 1963 Topps #537
Topps Flagship Set Appearances (27): 1963-1989
Most Recent Mainstream Card: 2021 Panini Diamond Kings #7
1,814 - Rose non-parallel baseball cards in the Beckett online database as of 10/8/21.
Sources:
Baseball Reference
Beckett Database
The Phillies Room
SABR
The Trading Card Database
Wikipedia
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