Word: cincinnatian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hometown Cincinnatian too enthusiastic ever to walk to first base, Rose arrived in the major leagues as a flat-topped Reds second baseman whom Mickey Mantle rechristened "Charlie Hustle." Through 24 seasons at five positions, Rose devoured the game with such a primitive pleasure that people said he had skipped his true generation. Usually sliding on his stomach, he inched closer and closer to the dustiest of legends until in 1985 he passed Ty Cobb in total hits and kept on going to a record 4,256 hits and 3,562 games. Then he became the legend...
...baseball team could be said to exist for cable television, this is the one. In 1978 Turner asked Free Agent Pete Rose, native Cincinnatian to native Cincinnatian, if he would consider playing in Atlanta just long enough to help sell cable television, after which Turner would gladly return Rose to Cincinnati where they both knew he belonged. Supposedly because the letters M and h chafed him when he pitched. Messersmith had the name Channel stitched on his back over his number 17. Channel 17, Turner's "superstation...