Pete Rose, baseball’s all-time hits leader who helped lift the Phillies to their first World Series title in 1980 before being banned from baseball nine years later for gambling on the sport, was found dead Monday at his home in Las Vegas.

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 all-time National League hits record.