Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. It might have been the last picture taken of Rose, baseball's all-time hits leader as well as one of its most controversial figures.

Yes, the Big Red Machine had a Saturday date at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium in the World Series with the eventual American League Champion New York Yankees, but the man who would become baseball’s “Hit King” appeared focused on the eight-race card at Keeneland.

But the christening of Rose as "Charlie Hustle" was anything but complimentary. In a spring training game against New York that year, Rose bunted for a single, much to the amusement of Yankee's great Mickey Mantle and teammate Whitey Ford. From O'Brien's book: