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...young Rockefeller making the rounds of his father's friends? No, Peter Edward Rose, 37, third baseman extraordinary, tour guide and head auctioneer of the most remarkable free-agent sale in baseball history. So well did Rose peddle himself that the former Cincinnati Reds star moved to the top of the list of baseball's new millionaires last week, signing a four-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies for about $3.5 million. That would make him, at $875,000 a year (or $5,400 a game during the regular season), the highest paid baseball player in history, surpassing...
...York lost Tom Seaver, Oakland couldn't keep Reggie Jackson, but Cincinnati is determined to hold on to Pete Rose. The Reds' star third baseman is scheduled to become a free agent on Nov. 3. To keep him in town, the city planning commission has drafted an ordinance designating Rose "an historic property." If the city council passes the ruling, there cannot be any "alteration to the exterior appearance of the property," including "the number 14 on the shirt and large lettering on the posterior of the shirt spelling out the word Rose." More important, there...
Still, the long drive for the American League championship left the Yankees drained and hobbled. Three key regulars-Centerfielder Mickey Rivers, All-Star Second Baseman Willie Randolph and First Baseman Chris Chambliss -missed one or more of the early Series games. Other Yankees suffered nagging injuries that did not remove them from the lineup, but slowed them a step or took some snap from their bats...
Jackson was the Yankee hitting hero of the second game as well, driving in all three Yankee runs. But Los Angeles Third Baseman Ron Cey, who came up to stay from Albuquerque in 1972, did him exactly one better. Cey is dubbed "the Penguin" by his teammates, and he runs as though he were wearing bedroom slippers. No matter; he could have walked the bases after crunching a Catfish Hunter pitch for a three-run homer. Counting an ear lier RBI, the final score was the Penguin 4, the Yankees...
Still, the game's best defensive play was a portent of heroics to come and a change in the fortunes of the Series. Yankee Third Baseman Graig Nettles, acquired in a trade with Cleveland before the 1973 season, made a spectacular diving catch of a line drive. In the next game, back in Yankee Stadium, Nettles showed he had the millisecond reflexes and cannon arm to be ranked with Brooks Robinson at third. When a weary-armed Ron Guidry turned shaky on the mound, Nettles stifled Dodger rally after rally. Any one of his four sprawling, crawling, flying, levitating...