Word: pete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprised, if you're traveling outside the U.S. or Canada this week, to find TIME with a different cover than the one on this edition. The cover story elsewhere is about the crisis facing Carlos Saul Menem, the incoming President of Argentina, instead of the Pete Rose gambling scandal. The domestic story on gambling runs in a somewhat shorter form inside the other editions. These changes are only the most prominent features of the increasingly rich and specialized editing that TIME provides each week in 5.6 million copies circulated throughout countries around the world...
...seasons, no one has been depressed to know that there was a baseball player who lived his life according to the numbers, who kept statistics in so many categories that he seemed to be a portrait of a ballplayer painted by the numbers. On the contrary, the calculations of Pete Rose have been central to his charm. Who else remembers ordering room service in 1963, and that...
...Reds' clubhouse, had outfitted Rose for several sweet years of sideline catches. But when Rose came back at 22 to dislodge second baseman Don Blasingame, he was shunned by Blasingame's buddies. Familiar with cold shoulders, the black players took him in. Frank Robinson remembers, "Nobody had to show Pete how to hit, but they wouldn't even show him how to be a major leaguer...
Numbers games, sports betting and other forms of illegal gambling have been mushrooming, as Pete Rose's troubles testify. But the really explosive growth in the past 25 years has been in gambling that is completely legal: state- sponsored lotteries, offtrack betting parlors and the like. In fact, many believe that the growth of legal betting has spurred illegal wagering by spreading the idea that "it's O.K. to gamble." So, the more governments sponsor various forms of wagering, the more insistent grows a moral question: Should the states promote, encourage and even hype the nation's betting frenzy...
COVER: From hero to hustler, Pete Rose symbolizes America's new national pastime...