About 20 days each month, Pete Rose signs autographs in Las Vegas, and every once in a while, he'll meet an autograph seeker from East Central Indiana.
When he does, he asks them the same thing — which he revealed to The Star Press in a phone interview Monday night.
“Every time someone comes from Muncie," Rose said, "I always ask them, ‘Do you know who the Muncie Mortar is?’ They don’t know.
“Then I say, ‘Ron Bonham.’”
Rose, of course, is talking about Muncie Central basketball legend Ron Bonham, who died Saturday night at the age of 73.