Word: pete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reds' dugout, that gloomy atmosphere which predominated yesterday remains unchanged. The puddle in the middle of the room, the result of a tearshedding session conducted by Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, and the rest of the immortals from Cincinnati, has yet to be cleaned...
Katherine Rose, who besides being Pete's wife, is a Cincinnati sportscaster, called the 1975 Reds "the greatest team in baseball history." While this may be a slight exaggeration, it is not all that far off the mark. This year the Reds put together 108 victories, highest in the NL since 1908, and clinched their division earlier than any other team in baseball history. "Offensively and defensively" said Montreal manager Gene Mauch, "the Reds have been awesome...
...past five years Cincinnati has taken three NL pennants, and won more ball games than any other ballclub, yet a world championship has repeatedly eluded them. This year they are determined to end things differently. "We started this year with one goal" said Pete Rose in August, "and that was to take it all." I'll say Cincinnati... in five...
LAST WEEK in the Winthrop House JCR, I asked Harrington about a piece by Pete Hamill that ran in the Village Voice last year which proposed Harrington as a candidate for president in 1976, arguing that it was time to take Socialism off the "dirty word list" in the American political vocabulary. Harrington rejected the idea out of hand...
...with good reason. Nobody has been more of a military-industrialist than Pete Rose. In fact, Rose is good enough reason to hate any ball club. My particular dislike of the man ran so deep that when he finally dropped 16 points under .300 in 1974 I considered it a banner year for baseball...