Word: pete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Pete Rose finally overtook Ty Cobb, emotion at last overcame Rose. For several minutes after a back pounding from teammates, opponents and even the umpires, he was left alone at first base. Then the base itself was removed, confiscated for posterity, and he was lost. "That's the first time I was ever on a baseball field," Rose thought later, "when I didn't know what to do." He "was doing all right," as he put it, "until I looked up and started thinking of my family." Particularly his father, who died in 1970. "I saw him up there...
...Roger Maris and others under journalistic seige, Rose kept both his hair and humor. The two-a-day press conferences, better attended than some State of the Union messages, raised issues as profound as the soup du jour at Flanigan's on Second Street, hereafter to be known as Pete Rose Way. "I knew chicken noodle was on Tuesday," he said significantly. But that night an 0-for-4 showing got him away from the specials (asparagus) and back to the basics (vegetable). Ron Robinson, a raw Reds pitcher who last spring had fretted that he wouldn't make...
...sharp look. "But you better." Rose did not stop at recruiting his son to chase after him. When the Padres' Tony Gwynn, 25, reached first base in the late innings, Rose apprised Gwynn that he, too, was good enough to shoot for 3,000 or | 4,000 hits. As Pete says, "That's easy, getting 3,000. What the hell...
...face. He turned to his lovely dinner companions, Lisbeth Schluter and Katherine Evans, editor of the Washington Journalism Review, and explained: "If somebody comes up and whispers in my ear and I have to get up hurriedly and leave the table, don't be alarmed. It is because Pete Rose has hit." Rose did not get his milestone hit until the following night, so the President, uninterrupted, went on to tell stories about his ranch, his old friend Jimmy Stewart and the hazards of official dining and wining, which a President must lead ("Being first is a problem. I have...
...Pete Rose comes through with...