A shocking — and sad — twist in the death of Major League Baseball hits leader Pete Rose as a frantic 911 call was made to emergency responders just hours before Rose was found dead.
According to 911 tapes obtained by media outlet TMZ, employees at the luxury Las Vegas building that Rose lived in had tried to initiate a welfare check just hours before he was found dead.
The tape transcripts reveal that employees had banged on Rose’s door two hours before he was found, but there had been no answer despite a TV loudly playing inside Rose’s apartment, according to the TMZ report.
After the workers couldn’t make contact with Rose, his son was notified and he later arrived at the unit to find that he had passed.
A clip of the now-published 911 call illustrated a confusing scene that included a friend of the family saying they were a Las Vegas Metro Police officer to try and get on the property.
“There was concerns earlier as far as Pete Rose’s situation because he was shaking and he wasn’t answering the door,” a male worker could be heard telling the 911 operator. “He wasn’t responsive, so now he has family and friends out here trying to get on property. But we have this one gentleman that’s here portraying to be Metro and we can’t confirm if he’s Metro or not.”
The operator could be heard re-directing the conversation to determine if Rose was alive or not.
That’s when the worker said that the son had confirmed that his father had passed.
According to TMZ, just one day before his untimely death, Rose had traveled to an autograph singing in Nashville and had been able to spend time with some of his teammates from his championship-winning Reds team in 1975 and 1976.
According to the New York Post, a medical examiner ruled that Rose had died from natural causes related to hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
Rose holds MLB records for games (3,562), at-bats (14,053), hits (4,256) and singles (3,215), but was never inducted into the Hall of Fame due to a scandal where it was found that he bet on baseball games, including games he played and managed in.
You can listen to the entire 911 call here:
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