Baseball greats Pete Rose and Joe DiMaggio never played in the majors at the same time, but they teamed up once in an odd situation.

Rose, baseballs all-time hit king, told a funny anecdote about the time he gave the Yankee Hall of Famer a shower when they were visiting the troops together in Vietnam during the war there. He apparently was referring to a 1967 USO-sponsored trip featuring baseball stars.

It was so hot, nobody could sleep, Rose, 78, recalled to WFAN radio host Mike Francesa in a clip (watch below) posted Tuesday.

All of a sudden, Joe says, I gotta take a shower, Rose remembered. I said, Joe, were not in downtown Saigon, were in the damn middle of the jungle. He says, I dont give a darn, Im Joe DiMaggio, I gotta take a shower.

But the Yankee Clipper needed Roses help.

The only way you can take a shower there is, a guy had to get up on a chair me have a bucket of water, pour it into this canvas tank, pull the chain and the guy underneath took a shower, said Rose, the former Cincinnati Reds star and manager. I gave Joe DiMaggio a shower.

Then Rose gave an unsolicited appraisal of Joltins Joes junk. The best way to describe Joe DiMaggio is he was a penis with a man hanging from it, he said.

Rose, who is promoting a new book, Play Hungry: The Making of a Baseball Player, is banned from baseball for life for gambling. But stories like this (which he has told before ) make us glad he isnt banned from the talk-radio circuit.