Banished baseball great Pete Rose passed away two weeks ago, and now we are getting a first-hand listen at the 911 call that was made on that fateful day.
The call was obtained by TMZ, which revealed that staff at Rose’s Las Vegas building attempted to do a wellness check on him before he was ultimately discovered deceased.
According to the audio, workers tried checking on Pete Rose two hours before they contacted authorities on the day he was discovered dead.
An employee told the dispatcher that they heard a loud TV, but Rose didn’t respond when they knocked.
The door was unlocked, but they didn’t have permission to enter the room.
The employee on the call said Rose’s son was in the room after he was contacted and made his way there. Tyler Rose arrived to discover his father deceased.
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Major League Baseball, which banished him in 1989, issued a brief statement expressing condolences and noting his “greatness, grit and determination on the field of play.”
Reds principal owner and managing partner Bob Castellini said in a statement that Rose was “one of the fiercest competitors the game has ever seen” and added: “We must never forget what he accomplished.”
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What Happen In The Days Before Pete Rose Passed Away?
Just 24 hours before his shocking death, Pete Rose was spotted at an autograph signing in Nashville along with a number of his teammates from the ‘Big Red Machine’ days of the Cincinnati Reds.
While things may have seemed to be great, former teammate and close friend Tony Perez told TMZ that it ‘wasn’t a good time’ because Rose was ‘not himself.’
Day after Pete Rose passed away, it was revealed that the cause of his death was heart disease and that he passed from natural causes.
It would later be revealed that Rose had been taken to the hospital about five days prior to his death.
His assistant believed he was ‘acting differently’ as well. However, doctors would run some tests and send him home.
