Word: cobb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Exiting with his chin stuck out was probably the only way Rose could go. He was blessed by the gods not so much with talent as with the insatiable drive to win. A competitor stubborn enough to play long beyond his prime -- and until he could break Ty Cobb's batting record -- a rookie who ran to first base when he was given a walk, a bruiser who plowed so hard into an opposing catcher during an All-Star game that he separated the man's shoulder, Rose was too vain and too arrogant to beg for mercy from...
Rose will almost surely never earn a living in baseball again, but he is likely to continue to make a living off baseball by merchandising his relics. In 1985, the year he broke Cobb's record, he arranged to collect royalties on T shirts, beer mugs, pennants and plastic figurines of himself. On the lucrative baseball-card show circuit, where one show promoter has clocked him signing his short name 600 times an hour, Rose earns as much as $20,000 an appearance. He was broke or unsentimental enough to sell the bat from his record 4,192nd...
...husky whispers, the worst charges imagined were spoken aloud at last. Giamatti's special investigator, John Dowd, asserted in court that he has found nine witnesses and enough corroborating evidence to prove that Rose committed baseball's capital crime: from 1985 through 1987 the hustling heir to Ty Cobb routinely bet on his own Cincinnati Reds. Even for history's leading hitter, who retired after 24 seasons to manage the team in 1987, the prescribed penalty would be expulsion from the game...
...Cobb County, Ga., police have reviewed accounts of child abuse for a two- year period and found that reports as much as double in the three days after school grades are issued. Many experts find that the problem intensifies toward the end of the academic year. Observes Rosalyn Oreskovich, area manager of children's protective services in Seattle: "From March to the end of June, our referral rate will rise dramatically. By spring, the parents' frustration has really built...
...next at-bat Doug Demeo broke the tie by lofting a Texas Leaguer into no-man's land between Harvard second baseman Casey Cobb and rightfielder Ted Decareau. Both Dextradeur and McMillin came around to score on the bloop hit, making it 4-2, Holy Cross...