Somehow I remember him playing when I first got into baseball. I was a HUGE baseball fan as a kid, much bigger than hockey at that time. That probably changed around 12-14 years old, and baseball hasn't aged as well with me. Though it's aged way better than football or basketball, which I haven't followed either of in decades and decades now.
I remember when he came out and pushed the umpire when he was the Reds manager, and he got suspended for a pretty long time. Was it a month or two? I only watched that game because it was against the Mets.
It was f***in crazy. It was one of the funniest things I had seen in baseball at the time as a pretty young kid.People were throwing trash on the field. It looked like a wrestling skit. I often times thought Pete Rose himself made that a worked shoot wrestling angle. And we all know he loved wrestling. I remember when he was choke slammed by Kane three years in a row at Wrestlemania some years later.
I'm surprised he wasn't eventually reinstated at some point in the last 35 years. The guy who banished him wound up dying like a week later.
