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Until last year, when New York Yankees Pitcher Waite ("Schoolboy") Hoyt died grudgingly at 84, he served Rose as a Cobb historian and utility Merlin. Having been a pallbearer for Babe Ruth, Hoyt was a certified carrier of legends. In retelling tales of Cobb, Rose animatedly acts them out, clapping the dirt off his thighs just so, snatching up particles of outfield grass in the pristine signal that Player-Manager Cobb had for a knockdown pitch...
...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 if people continue to think Cobb is baseball's best hitter as long as Rose has the most...
Pointedly Rose likes to wonder how many errors Cobb committed, suggesting that he knows there were more than a few. Beyond the five different positions that Rose has played in the All-Star Game (first, second, third, left and right), he is proud of changing posts several times for the good of his team and vain about his outfielding record (.991). He does not dwell on how many fewer games (3,034 to 3,455) and at bats (11,429 to 13,689) Cobb enjoyed over his 24 seasons...
Exactly when Rose first made out the ghost's gray outline is unclear. But on the 1973 night of his 2,000th hit, near the end of an interview, he observed casually, "Cobb took this long to get 1,861." By 1981, when Rose led the league in hits at the age of 40, but 55 games were struck, he was heard to worry, "Cobb is getting further away." If not in Philadelphia at the mean end of the 1983 World Series against Baltimore, then in Montreal at the bad beginning of last year, the chase seemed doomed. Thanks...
...million in 1983. For his turnstile appeal, certainly not his .259 batting average, Rose was called home last August. He singled and doubled in his first game, slid himself into a perfect mudball, and hit .365 the rest of the year. He could take his time with Cobb after that, and he has. Platooning at first base with another reclaimed icon, Tony Perez, 43, Rose sees to the right-handed pitchers. Though a switch hitter, he bats predominantly left-handed...