CINCINNATI -- Pete Rose joked about his hair and his age. He reminisced about all those wins with the Big Red Machine. There was one thing that the hits king was determined not to do when he was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds' Hall of Fame.
"I've already cried on the field one time," Rose said on Saturday, referring to the time he got his record-setting hit. "That's enough."
The 75-year-old Rose kept his composure during a pregame ceremony honoring him as the 86th player to go into the team's hall. Many of his former Big Red Machine teammates - Hall of Famers Johnny Bench and Tony Perez, among them - were on hand to join in the humor and the honor.