River Rat - R.I.P. Pete

"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball." - Pete Rose

Tonight, I found out about Pete Rose’s death via Facebook. I wasn’t expecting it, and the news hit me harder than I thought it would. There’s something about the finality of it that stirs up all these mixed feelings I’ve had about him for so long. As a kid, he was larger than life to me—Charlie Hustle, the guy who gave everything he had every single gam…