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...first day of the second installment of the 1981 baseball season. Pete Rose's eighth-inning single off Cardinal Pitcher Mark Littell was what the 60,561 spectators at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium had come to see. It was Rose's 3,631st career hit, and it broke Stan Musial's 18-year-old National League record. Seconds after Rose, 40, landed on first, fireworks went off, 3,631 balloons were released and Stan the Man himself was making his way across the infield to offer his congratulations. In the locker room afterward, Pete was handed...
Dizzy Gillespie blew his horn, James Brown accompanied himself on the pelvis, and Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco for the 4,631st time That would be quite a show anywhere, but in Harlem ... well, it was show enough to make limousines full of people who rare? SSS(TM) K to Harlem pay as much as $100 each for the privilege. Of course every C note sung and spent went for a noble cause: the Dance Theater of Harem. Finally the whole stageful of illustrious benefactors was upstaged by the long-limbed benefactees. D.TH danc ers leaped...
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