Larry Shenk still remembers the day inside Veterans Stadium in 1981. Shenk, the longtime Philadelphia Phillies head of public relations, walked down the hallway with Pete Rose right after "Charlie Hustle" broke Stan Musial's record all-time National League hits record.

After reaching the pinnacle of the sport he loved, Rose was banned from baseball in 1989 for gambling while manager of his hometown Reds.   That came just four years after Rose had broken Ty Cobb’s hit record,