WATCH VIDEO: Late MLB legend Pete Rose visits Innovative Field
Pete King at Rochester Red Wings game (Photo: WHEC)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Pete Rose, the MLB legend who died at age 83, has a local connection. Rose, who rose to fame playing for the Cincinnati Reds, started his professional baseball career in Geneva.
After graduating from high school in 1960, the Cincinnati native flew to Rochester. Two days later, he rode a bus to Geneva to start playing for the Reds’ level D minor league team. Two years later, he left the region to play for a level A minor league team in Macon, Georgia.
The baseball legend returned to the region in 2016 to sign autographs at Innovative Field, then-named Frontier Field. You can watch that video from the News10NBC archives in this story.
Rose retired in 1986 and was famously banned by MLB after the league said he was gambling on the sport.