NEW YORK (AP) - Pete Rose will be inducted into World Wrestling Entertainment's hall of fame later this month.
Rose, major league baseball's career hits leader with 4,256, participated in three WrestleMania events from 1998-2000 for WWE. He's ineligible to enter baseball's Hall of Fame because he's banned from the game for life.
"We are privileged to have 10 Superstars who are truly deserving to be called WWE Hall of Famers," said WWE Chairman Vince McMahon. "Pete Rose is our first-ever celebrity inductee for the classic moments he has provided in WrestleMania matches with WWE Superstar Kane. Only a champion like Pete Rose would get into a wrestling ring with a 300-pound monster like Kane, and then have the tenacity and determination to do it again. One day Pete Rose will take his rightful place in the Baseball Hall of Fame, but on March 13, Pete will officially become a member of the WWE Hall of Fame."
Rose will be paid for his appearance at the March 13 induction, and at WrestleMania the next night at Madison Square Garden.
He'll be presented by Kane, his 136-kilogram nemesis in the WrestleMania shows.