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...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 hits. He says, "We both loved to hit and hated to lose...
...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...
...Babe Ruth of our high school," made it to the major leagues for 15 distinguished seasons and retired ten years ago. "At seven and eight Pete was really a little guy," recalls Brinkman, now a White Sox coach. "I'd pitch and he'd catch, and when the hitter swung and missed, Pete would stick the ball up in their face and say, 'Hey, batter, batter, batter.' " Pete was a banker's son, though his father was more famous for playing halfback with the semipro Cincinnati Bengals at the age of 42 and sparring with World Featherweight Champion Freddie Miller...
...hitter forgets the first pitcher he faced in the big leagues, though Rose wonders yet why it was modest Earl Francis for the Pirates that opening day and not Bob Friend. "My first time up, Francis walked me on four pitches. What he didn't realize was I couldn't have swung at any of them." It was the first of 1,506 walks. "Frank Robinson followed with a homer--on the second pitch. Since Cincinnati used to open before anyone else, I scored the first run of the year." It was the first of 2,129 runs. Off Friend...
Cobb's patented hands-apart grip made him a nonpareil singles and doubles hitter, but furnished him with little power. Or so it seemed. In the Babe Ruth epoch, when Cobb was criticized for failing to hit the long ball, he went on record: "I'm going for home runs for the first time in my career." That day he went six for six: two singles, a double and three home runs. The following game he hit two more homers. The Peach had made his point; he hit just seven more home runs that season, and only...