The cause of death of baseball icon Pete Rose has been revealed. Rose died of heart disease at his Las Vegas home on Monday, September 30, according to a coroner’s report reviewed by the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hit king and the Cincinnati Reds icon whose signature gritty hustle couldn’t outpace the gambling transgressions and obfuscation that kept him out of the National Baseball Hall of Fame,

The death of Pete Rose, baseball’s all-time hits leader, does not mean his banishment from Major League Baseball in 1989 over gambling accusations is automatically lifted or that he is now eligible for the Hall of Fame.