Word: rose
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Certainly the Cincinnati offense is one of the finest in recent memory. Basically, the Reds line up is a three spark-plug, three piston machine. Morgan, Rose and Griffey, all hitting well over 300, are the spark-plugs; Bench, Perez and Foster, who collectively accounted for 66 home runs and 316 RBI's are the pistons. The sparkplugs hit 'em where they ain't and the pistons hit 'em over the walls...
While more publicity has been focused on Cincinnati's hitting attack, the Reds' fielding is equally unsurpassed. This season the Reds strung together fourteen consecutive errorless games, another alltime baseball record. Six Reds--Morgan, Concepcion, Bench, Rose, Perez and Geronimo -- have won Golden Glove awards in the past; four won last year alone...
...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...
...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...
...wrong -- I'm not jealous of his incredibly high hit production, even if most of them came off the Phills' pitching. I'm not speaking from the perspective of catcher Ray Fosse, who still walks around dazed from the day that "I came to play" Rose came into home and Fosse in locomotion style during an otherwise friendly 1971 All Star game...