No one could have expected to see Major League Baseball’s all-time hits leader at a Bakersfield College basketball game.

Pete Rose, famous for his baseball ability from the 1960s into the mid ’80s and infamous for gambling on baseball, was sitting in the middle of the front row of the BC gym watching the Renegades play against his son Tyler’s team, the Glendale Vaqueros.

In an interview with The Rip after the game, Rose was asked what his thoughts of the game were.

“If you were a Glendale fan like me it was a bad game,” said Rose.

Rose said that the best part of the game was the last 10 seconds for Bakersfield.

BC won 100-98 in overtime.

“Any time you have a team down by 11 and you go into overtime, it’s exciting,” he said.

Rose said that he doesn’t think his record of 4,256 hits will be broken, although he did say, “if you’d asked Ty Cobb that he probably would have said the same thing.” Rose broke Ty Cobb’s record in 1985.

Rose, who has been banned from the Hall of Fame, said that he thinks someday he will have a place their with the rest of baseball’s legends.

“Yeah, the Hall of Fame was made for me,” he said.