He made his name on the west side growing up near Anderson ferry. Then after 4.5 seasons away from Cincinnati with Philadelphia and Montreal Pete Rose came home in 1984 and looking for change, he built his castle *** little privacy. *** new family, Pete Rose would make Indian Hill that new home. But Rose would always remember where he began, whether it's the west side or east side, Pete Rose is Cincinnati. You call this, your home. Is this your getaway? What do you, what do you like about the, the new home here in Indian Hill? Well, I think I like as quiet as it is out here. Uh, you know, I was always, um, brought up on the other side of town, Western Hills and, uh, I guess you can go over there by the country club and find something that's got four or five acres. But, uh, you know, my wife just saw this house and it had only been, lived in for about six months and it had *** nice, uh, acreage, five acres and it's still 16.2 miles from here to the ballpark. There's *** lot of good things about this. My, my, my son and daughter still live on the other side of town is quite far for them to come to, you know, the ride, the horses and stuff. But, uh, they make the trip it's worthwhile. Was it difficult to make that move though? From the west side? Because they kind of claim Pete Rose is there? Well, no, see, the thing you have to realize about that is, is I wasn't really raised on the west side. I was raised on the river in Erison ferry, uh which is right down by Sin Annsville. I just went to Western Hills High School. Uh I probably went further to school than most kids that went to Western Hills. You know, I lived on river road uh down where the ferry boat is, it goes to the airport. *** matter of fact, I used to work in that ferry boat when I was *** kid taking the money on the cars going across. And uh Mr Kotar owned the ferry boat. I think they still do. Um And I used to just take money. I was about 1213 years old, just take money on the cars going across and coming back, you know, like four hours *** day. And it was quite fun because uh I could see the ferry boat from my house and it was something to do when I wasn't playing baseball. I remember talking to George Brett. He mentioned something about his father. He where in California he said now other kids, they may have to get *** job and go to work. I want you to play baseball. I want you to play football and basketball, believe it or not. I was *** much better football player in high school and I was *** baseball player and I was very fortunate to, uh, probably more so than any other effort that I can think of is. See, I had *** father who was very active in sports and because of his activities, uh he exposed me to all sports. And I was at the age, I was *** lot better off than my brother, my younger brother David because he wasn't quite at the age where my bro, my father could take him everywhere like he took me and I was *** ball boy or bat boy on the, on the baseball team. He played for the 5th 30 unit Trust Company. Uh He, I was *** water boy on the football team that he played on and I was *** ball boy on the basketball team who played *** couple of nights *** week at Christ church downtown. So, you know, he always exposed me to sports and I was whenever he had an event to go to and supper was over with, uh, he'd look for me. I'm out in the car waiting for him to go to the event. Uh I, it was just *** way of life. Uh, with me is, is going to watch my father play basketball, football or baseball. I attacked my job no differently than my father attacked his job at the bank. Uh, he never missed *** day of work. Um, he go in on Saturdays, you know, he, he wouldn't leave until something was completed that day. He wouldn't leave at five o'clock and every night he'd get home at 10 minutes after six, the bus would stop right down at the bus stop on River Road at 10 to 6. And my dad would get off the bus and we eat supper 20 minutes after six. Every night, it was just like *** regular routine that you get into. And, uh, he's very dedicated to his job. Uh, and he, he felt that, uh, um, you know, when you're gonna do something, you should try to be number one at it. And, uh, and he would never ball me out when I played sports. If I made *** blunder, I made *** mistake. But he would always, uh, he would always wait till we're going home. You know, you see *** lot of fathers today, they yell at your kids when they make an error on the, you know that right on the spot. It really embarrasses the kid. It makes him feel bad, makes me not want to play the game. Uh, my father always wait until we're going home because I always rode home with him and he bring up the uh the different situations that come up and say, you know, when you did this in that situation, that wasn't the right thing to do. And he'd explain it to me, you know, he wouldn't chew me out. It was his way of, of criticizing me, but it was *** constructive criticism. So it didn't bother you. And uh his main goal he thought was always to win the game. Not what I did or what this guy did is what we did. And I think if you learn that at, at an earlier age, it just becomes *** habit, just like if you, if you learn at an early age to be selfish and just think about yourself that becomes *** habit too. And, uh fortunately because of my father, I, I always looked at myself and I might be wrong. Uh I've always looked at myself as nothing more than my father and the next generation with *** bigger and better opportunity. Uh, and I took advantage of it. But is that what keeps you going sometimes when you get tired? I mean, baseball has to sometimes feel like *** job. But I, I think when you talk about that, when it becomes *** job and when you get tired, I, I just think that I have more than the average pride. Uh, you know, when you put the uniform on, I mean, it's just like if I uh had your job, I mean, I would have pride in wanting to do real good every night. I'm on the air or, uh, when I did ***, uh, *** feature I'd really want to be *** good feature. I'd, I'd really work at it. I think everyone should. I don't care if you make *** million bucks *** year if you make 100 bucks ***, uh, *** year. I mean, you got to really dedicate yourself to trying to do the, uh, the, the best job you possibly can. And, uh, you know, I've been very fortunate to have *** lot of good things happen to me because of baseball. But, uh, I might add, I'm not lucky. I don't think I'm lucky at all. I'm lucky in one respect. And that's what I was born with *** God, gifted nice body. I mean, *** healthy body, but I had the same opportunity as everyone else did. I just took advantage of the opportunity. And, uh, that's why I look at that and, uh, there's *** lot of, there's *** lot of youngsters who are born handicapped now. They're not lucky. They're unlucky from the start. But, uh, if, you know, if you're *** healthy person and, uh, you look at me and say I'm lucky. I mean, you know, we started out the same way. I just made some different sacrifices, other people didn't make, but I didn't really mind making *** sacrifice because it wasn't really sacrificing as far as I was concerned. It was just *** way of life with me.