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...that Rose admires viciousness. "I know," he says, "people picture me running over Ray Fosse in the All-Star Game [of 1970]." Scoring the winning run, Rose spread the catcher like apple butter. Fosse's shoulder and career came unhinged. "I wish it hadn't happened," Rose says. "It ruined that kid." But he adds, "I'm glad we won the game." Regarding comparisons with Cobb, Rose joins in few of the arguments. "I don't steal bases like he did, and he didn't wear a tie on the road like I do." It will be fine with Rose...
...anti-Pats-Tom Terrific and a bunch of hardworking lunch-pail teammates. The Sox are cartoon characters and superheroes. Ortiz, Ramirez, Schilling: larger than life in personality and, in Curt's case, with an ego to match. Damon's everyone's darling. Varitek is like a Cooperstown statue of "Catcher" and, now, "Captain" too. Arroyo, who starred as a hard-rock singer at Peter Gammons' annual charity fundraiser in Boston in January-Arroyo and his cornrows, and now he's got a CD of Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots covers coming out in July. Theo himself was on guitar...
...It’s a shame he didn’t stay to play through his college career here,” sophomore Drew Casey, Harvard’s current backup catcher, told me. “He would have been the most feared pitcher in college baseball, but I understand that he had some stuff he needed to get straight...
...would not agree to catch a 168 mph pitch,” captain catcher Schuyler Mann wrote, adding that it would be “suicidal?...
Harvard, on the flip side, was unable to plate the runners it put in scoring position, most glaringly during a no-out, bases-loaded chance in the second. A leadoff single by catcher Annie Dell’Aria, a double down the line from sophomore Susie Winkeller, and an error on a Lauren Brown ground ball filled the sacks, but the next three hitters failed to capitalize...