Word: fungoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...different one the next." Only Rose would understand that this applies to similes as well. Approaching 46, the Reds' player-manager had to leave himself off the winter roster in order to protect a younger man, like Pitcher Norm Charlton, whose finger Rose broke with the first fungo of the season...
...start ("It wasn't fun playing," Pete whispers, a little ashamed), the Phillies had found their way back to first place under new Manager Pat Corrales. In the drill, Pete played first base. Looking around, he had to laugh. Corrales and Coach Deron Johnson, who was wielding the fungo bat, are his old Cincinnati teammates; another coach, Dave Bristol, managed him there and in the minors; Mets Pitcher Pat Zachry, kibitzing near by, was a painfully lanky teen-age pitcher Rose remembers in one of those hand-me-down Reds uniforms that signify the minorest minor league...