The batting gloves Cincinnati Reds first baseman Pete Rose wore while breaking Major League Baseball's all-time hits record, passing Ty Cobb, have sold for $78,000 via auction house Huggins & Scott, a subsidiary of Robert Edward Auctions.

The sum paid for Rose's record-setting gloves is believed to be a record for a pair of game-used batting gloves.

Rose's record-setting 4,192nd hit came on September 11,1985 at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium off the San Diego Padres' Eric Show. A Padres executive who was friends with Rose asked longtime announcer Jerry Coleman for a ticket stub from the game. Coleman, also a friend of Rose's, visited him in the locker room to congratulate him after breaking the record.

"Pete, you've got to give me something from tonight," Coleman said to Rose, who as

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