⚾ Autographed/Signed Pete Rose Philadelphia Phillies Retro Blue Baseball Jersey — JSA COA — 4,256 Career Hits — MLB All-Time Hits Record — 3x World Series Champion — Charlie Hustle — Born April 14, 1941, Cincinnati, Ohio — Passed September 30, 2024

⚾ This is an autographed Philadelphia Phillies retro blue baseball jersey signed by Pete Rose — authenticated by JSA (James Spence Authentication) — representing the most documented career in the history of offensive production in major league baseball and one of the most complex legacies the sport has produced. Pete Rose played 24 seasons of major league baseball, accumulated 4,256 career hits — a record that no active player has come within realistic range of surpassing — and won three World Series championships with two franchises before his 1989 lifetime ban from baseball. He passed away on September 30, 2024, making every autographed piece bearing his signature part of a finite collection that will never grow larger. Condition: NOS.

🌟 Cincinnati, Ohio — The Beginning of Charlie Hustle

🌟 Pete Rose was born on April 14, 1941, in Cincinnati, Ohio — the city whose baseball identity is so completely intertwined with the Cincinnati Reds franchise that to grow up there in the 1940s and 1950s was to grow up inside the game itself. His father Harry Rose played semi-professional football and instilled in Pete the competitive ethic that would eventually define a playing style so relentless, so physically committed, and so focused on every individual at-bat and every ground ball that his nickname became shorthand for the approach itself. Charlie Hustle. The man who ran to first base on walks. The man who dove headfirst in the World Series. The man who played the game as if every moment of it required everything he had. Condition: NOS.

🏆 The Big Red Machine — Three World Series Championships

🏆 Pete Rose won back-to-back World Series championships with the Cincinnati Reds in 1975 and 1976 as a member of the Big Red Machine — the most celebrated Reds team in franchise history and one of the most dominant National League teams of the modern era. The 1975 World Series against the Boston Red Sox is widely considered one of the greatest in the history of the Fall Classic — seven games, Carlton Fisk's home run in Game 6, and a Rose performance across the series that earned him the 1975 World Series MVP award for his .370 batting average and the relentless style that made him the embodiment of what Cincinnati baseball looked like at its best. Condition: NOS.

⭐ Philadelphia Phillies and 1980 — A Third Championship in a New City

⭐ Pete Rose signed with the Philadelphia Phillies before the 1979 season — one of the first true major free agent acquisitions of baseball's free agency era — and brought his hitting ability, professional presence, and competitive standard to a Phillies team that included Mike Schmidt, Steve Carlton, and the talent to win if the right pieces came together. They did in 1980, when the Philadelphia Phillies won their first World Series championship in franchise history, defeating the Kansas City Royals in six games. Rose hit .261 in that World Series, but more important than the average was the competitive energy and the experience of winning that he brought to a clubhouse that needed both. The powder blue retro jersey signed here is the garment that represents that era of Phillies baseball. Condition: NOS.

🌟 4,256 Career Hits — A Number That Will Stand

🌟 Pete Rose accumulated 4,256 career hits across a 24-season playing career that began in 1963 and ended in 1986 — surpassing Ty Cobb's record of 4,191 hits on September 11, 1985, in a game at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium before a crowd that understood they were watching the most significant statistical record in baseball history be rewritten in real time. The hit record has not been threatened since. Active players who reach even 3,000 hits — widely considered the Hall of Fame threshold for hitters — are celebrated for achieving it, which places into perspective what 4,256 means and how far above any other player in the history of the sport Rose sits at the top of the all-time list. Condition: NOS.

⚾ September 30, 2024 — The Final Signature

⚾ Pete Rose passed away on September 30, 2024, at age 83 in Las Vegas, Nevada. His passing converted every autographed piece bearing his signature into a document of a life in baseball that is now complete and unrepeatable — no new signings, no new appearances, no new authenticated pieces entering circulation. The JSA-authenticated Phillies retro blue jersey signed here is part of the finite collection that represents Pete Rose's physical connection to the memorabilia world, preserved in the powder blue road jersey of the franchise where he won his third championship and where the 4,256-hit journey carried him into the final chapter of his professional baseball career. Condition: NOS.

⚾🌟 Pete Rose. Cincinnati, Ohio. Charlie Hustle. 4,256 career hits — MLB all-time record. 3x World Series champion (1975, 1976, 1980). 17x All-Star. Passed September 30, 2024. Autographed Philadelphia Phillies retro blue baseball jersey, JSA COA. Condition: NOS.