⚾ Autographed/Signed Pete Rose Cincinnati Reds White Baseball Jersey JSA COA – Personally Signed by “Charlie Hustle,” the All-Time Major League Baseball Hits Leader with 4,256 Career Hits, the Cincinnati Reds Second Baseman, Third Baseman, Left Fielder, Right Fielder, and First Baseman Whose Seventeen All-Star Selections at Five Different Positions Defined What “Playing the Game the Right Way” Meant Across Two Full Decades of Professional Baseball

⚾ Baseball has its records, and then it has its records – the numbers that the sport treats as its permanent measurements, the marks that define what is possible at the highest level of the game across however many players and seasons and decades have had the opportunity to approach them. The single-season home run record generates the most conversation when it is approached, but the career record that the sport discusses most persistently in the context of a player's permanent place in the game's history is the hits record: the total accumulation across a career of a lifetime of at-bats producing contact, of twenty-three years of playing time adding one hit after another to a total that measures not just how well a player hit the ball in any given season but how consistently and how durably he did it across the full arc of a professional career. Pete Rose holds that record with 4,256 career hits, a number that defines him in the same way that the career home run record defines the player who holds it, and that places his name in the permanent conversation about what baseball careers look like when they are measured across the full span of what a body and a commitment to playing and a love of the game can produce over more than two decades.

⚾ Peter Edward Rose was born April 14, 1941, in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Anderson Ferry neighborhood of the city on the Ohio River – the kind of working-class Cincinnati background that produced a specific quality of relationship with the local team, the Reds, the franchise that had played in Crosley Field when he was growing up and that represented the aspirational endpoint for every kid in Cincinnati who played baseball in the parks and the schoolyards and the vacant lots that were the development pipeline of that era. He signed with the Reds organization and made his major league debut in 1963, and what followed was twenty-three seasons of professional baseball at the highest level of the game – first with the Reds, then with the Philadelphia Phillies, briefly with the Montreal Expos, and back to Cincinnati to finish the career with the franchise where it began.

🏆 He won three World Series rings – with the Reds in 1975 and 1976, in the midst of the “Big Red Machine” dynasty that produced the most celebrated back-to-back championship teams in the National League in the modern era, and with the Phillies in 1980, which added a championship on the other end of the competitive spectrum to a career that had already demonstrated what sustained excellence in the game looks like across multiple team contexts. He was selected to seventeen All-Star Games, appearing at second base, third base, left field, right field, and first base in a career that asked him to fill whatever role his team required and produced All-Star results at each of those five positions in the years when he held them. The “Charlie Hustle” nickname was originally given to him by Whitey Ford of the New York Yankees as a gentle mockery of the way Rose ran to first base on a walk during spring training – Rose ran out every walk, every play, in a way that the veterans found excessive – but Rose adopted the nickname as a statement about what he believed the game required, and the phrase became the shorthand for an approach to playing that the sport's greatest advocates for the game still cite when they talk about what playing baseball at its fullest means.

👕 The Cincinnati Reds white home jersey carries the franchise's classic identity – the red lettering on white, the Reds wordmark that Cincinnati baseball has worn across the eras that produced the teams and the players that the franchise's history is organized around. A signed Reds white jersey from Pete Rose, authenticated by JSA (James Spence Authentication), connects the collector to a player whose career statistics are the largest ever assembled by a position player in the history of the sport and whose name the game will always carry as the answer to the question of who holds the record that the most durable careers pursue. Condition: NOS.

⚾ Pete Rose. Cincinnati, Ohio. Charlie Hustle. Cincinnati Reds. 4,256 Career Hits. All-Time MLB Hits Leader. 3x World Series Champion. 17x All-Star. JSA COA. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.