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...would reach 4,191, return to 1928 and rendezvous with the roughest competitor in baseball's history, Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Somehow Rose overshot his true generation, and has had to hustle almost a quarter of a century to rejoin a gang of bronze men just like him. "Wagner, Speaker, Musial, Aaron--Ty Cobb." He rattles off the last of the stops he has been hurrying past for years. "Ty Cobb," he says with, wonder. Rose's ten-month-old son is named Tyler only because Carol, his second wife, would not approve Tyrus, though he lobbied passionately...
...over. I remember it like yesterday because the next morning was the first time in my life I ever had room service. Vada bought breakfast. It was $12.75." His store of figures charms most people but bothers a few. On the last day of Rose's rookie season, Stan Musial scratched a single to each side of him and retired with 3,630 hits, the highest total in the 88-year history of the National League. Eighteen seasons later, Rose still fretted for those bouncing balls, considering them two hits he might not have had to get to pass Musial...
...NOTES: Ripken is one of only seven players to amass more than 400 home runs and 3,000 hits. The six others are Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Eddie Murray, Stan Musial, Dave Winfield & Carl Yastrzemski... Pete Rose owns the 11th- and 15-longest playing streaks in major league history (745; 678). The sum of those streaks still falls 1,209 games short of Ripken's mark... Ripken holds the major league record for home runs hit by a shortstop, with 345... 5,045 players were put on the disabled list from the time Ripken started his consecutive games streak...
MARCH 30--Is host at a lunch for Hall of Famers such as Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Stan Musial and Nolan Ryan, where he announces his T-Ball Initiative: he and Laura will play host to T-ball games on the South Lawn to promote the national pastime. (First game was scheduled for last Sunday...
...Cardinals' history. With the exception of the New York Yankees, who seem to buy championships, no other team has won as many championships as the Cardinals have. From Dizzy Dean to Stan Musial to Bob Gibson to Ozzie Smith to Mark McGwire, the team has been a model...