Word: pete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pete Rose ever grows up, we will all grow old, and if Carl Yastrzemski ever grows old, well... well, it's over, that's all. The summer has been improved by the improvement of Yastrzemski, a Yaz of yore again and almost 43. At 41, Rose is just Rose, which Gertrude Stein somehow knew before The Sporting News. In the recordbook, they stand first and second among active players in games played, at-bats, hits, singles, doubles, extra base hits, total bases and runs scored. Their teams, the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies, stand thicker than pine...
...Cincinnati, the first Pete Rose was as legendary as the second. Rose reflects: "When I was young, people would stop me on the street to tell me I could never be what my father was." The elder Rose was a banker and a semiprofessional football player at 42, very tough and singleminded. In order to persuade Pete's Little League manager to let the boy switch-hit, the father promised not to take Pete away on the family's summer vacations. "I never set foot out of Cincinnati," Rose says uncomplainingly, "until I went off to the minor...
...there is a third Pete Rose, a carrot-topped little line-drive hitter. "I've never seen a twelve-year-old who can hit like Petey," says his father. "He called me from Cincinnati the other day to say he had been missing me and that his team had some easy games coming up. Couldn't he come to Philadelphia for a few days...
...been teetering publicly. Sometimes the harder it is for a ballplayer away from the game, the easier it is for him on the field. "Watch him go now," Second Baseman Joe Morgan whispered to someone at the 1978 peak of Rose's gaudy domestic drama in Cincinnati. Pete proceeded to get a hit in 44 straight games...
From the moment he heard the Phillies would be helping the Minnesota Twins christen their new ballpark this spring, Pete wanted the first baseball hit safely in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. It is rolling around in his dresser drawer now. "I might as well get them all," says Rose of the souvenir balls that have marked his trail like Hansel's breadcrumbs. "Soon I'll have made more outs than anybody, and I want that baseball...