The rest is history – the image of Rose sliding head first immortalized in bronze to this day on the Great American Ball Park plaza. This story is part of an ongoing series this year on the Big ...

Pete Rose was famous for his head-first slide, but he was capable of more conventional approaches. Here's proof. By Dayn Perry ...

Pete Rose tugged on the edge of the tarp and slowly unveiled a bigger-than-life sculpture of one of his headfirst slides, revealing it from the airborne cleats to the ground-scraping elbows. The Re… ...

CINCINNATI -- Pete Rose tugged on the edge of the tarp and slowly unveiled a larger-than-life sculpture of one of his headfirst slides, revealing it from the airborne cleats to the ground-scraping ...

The idea of a sliding Pete Rose was conceived by Tsuchiya years ago and he often approached John Allen, appointed by Major League Baseball to steer the Reds in 1996 after Marge Schott was forced out, ...

Pete Rose was a childhood hero of mine. But he chose his path of disgrace. ... Maybe this was his way of keeping alive the thrill of sliding into home head-first.

Pete Rose-Ray Fosse collision. One of Rose's most memorable moments came at the end of the 1970 All-Star Game when he scored the game-winning run for the National League in the 12th inning.

DAVIES: Pete Rose recorded in 2004. Here's a postscript to that conversation 20 years ago. It was one of the first interviews I did when I began filling in for FRESH AIR host Terry Gross.