Word: cobbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Pete Rose finally overtook Ty Cobb, emotion at last overcame Rose. For several minutes after a back pounding from teammates, opponents and even the umpires, he was left alone at first base. Then the base itself was removed, confiscated for posterity, and he was lost. "That's the first time I was ever on a baseball field," Rose thought later, "when I didn't know what to do." He "was doing all right," as he put it, "until I looked up and started thinking of my family." Particularly his father, who died in 1970. "I saw him up there...
...shoulder in a bicycle accident, and for several hours the city of Cincinnati was listed in critical condition. Throughout his 23rd season, Rose has played himself routinely against right-handers. So, starting after all in the final game of the Chicago series, he slapped two hits to equal Cobb's storied 4,191, and very nearly a third. For a man with a home-attendance clause in his contract (almost six bits a ticket after 1.5 million), this is the definition of integrity. Though Rose had said, "I have a way of things always turning out right for me," nobody...
Fifty-seven years to the day since Cobb pinch-hit and popped up in his final major-league at bat, Rose stroked a clean single to left center on a 2-1 slider from Eric Show in the first inning of a 2-0 victory over the San Diego Padres. "You missed a good ball game tonight," Rose told President Reagan over the phone. For some reason, Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and National League President Chub Feeney missed it too. Not only did Rose score both runs and make a defensive dive for the final out, but unbelievably...
Also looking to see action on Soldiers Field is a trio of infielders--Richard Riley from Roxbury Latin, Eric Magrisi from Holy Ghost Preparatory School in Pennsylvania, and Casey Cobb from Orono...
...pair of contenders: New Yorkers dreamed of a Subway Series between the Mets and Yankees, while Los Angelenos fantasized about a Freeway Free-for-All between the Dodgers and Angels. Cincinnati's Pete Rose was closing in on one of the game's most cherished records, Ty Cobb's standard of 4,191 base hits; as the weekend began, he needed only three more to break it. The young Met fireballer, Dwight Gooden, a 20-game winner at the age of 20, was prompting comparisons with the greatest pitchers of the past. But the drug disclosures could not help putting...