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Pete Rose retired from playing baseball on Aug. 17, 1986, but neglected to acknowledge the fact to anyone, including himself, for 16 months. Still the manager of the Cincinnati Reds, entitled to go on sporting his old uniform, Rose skipped the valedictory. At the owners' meetings a few weeks ago, as casually as can be, he let the information drop: "I just won't be running, throwing or hitting anymore...
Numbers have always consoled him. In his final appearance in the batter's box, at twilight in Cincinnati, Rose struck out on three fastballs from Goose Gossage ("I had two strikes on me before I could get the doughnut off the bat"). He also struck out in his second-to-last try. But in the final three games that Rose started, he was 8 for 13, including his tenth 5-for-5 game, one of 13 records he set that day alone. "People wonder why I didn't pinch- hit myself last season for a ceremonial goodbye, but a manager...
...Cincinnati's Dave Parker may be headed to the Yankees, while the Mets are trying to unload Mookie Wilson and Jesse Orosco. Seattle's Phil Bradley and L.A.'s Mike Marshall are also on the trading block, and the Blue Jays may be trying to ditch Dave Stieb. The Blue Jays and the Red Sox seem ready to trade some prospects, while the Yanks may make a deal with the White...
...thought back to the 1981 AFC championship game between Cincinnati and San Diego, played in wind chill close to 50 below zero. San Diego, the warm weather team, lost its passing game. And the Bengals could run the football, and went to the Super Bowl as a result...
...urbanity has footholds all over the place, and preservationism has achieved extraordinary momentum. Cincinnati's city council made charming West 4th Street a historic district last year. Among the latest local projects: the conversion of a down-at-the-heels Renaissance Revival textile building into offices. The former Tivoli Union brewery in Denver, a pseudo- Bavarian fantasy, is a giddy complex of shops, offices, restaurants and movie theaters. The vast old Bullock's department store in downtown Los Angeles has been turned into the country's largest wholesale jewelry mart, and Houston's art deco Alabama Theater has merely exchanged...