Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pete Rose retired from playing baseball on Aug. 17, 1986, but neglected to acknowledge the fact to anyone, including himself, for 16 months. Still the manager of the Cincinnati Reds, entitled to go on sporting his old uniform, Rose skipped the valedictory. At the owners' meetings a few weeks ago, as casually as can be, he let the information drop: "I just won't be running, throwing or hitting anymore...
Along with Rose, Tom Seaver, Phil Niekro and maybe Reggie Jackson are approaching this New Year's Day with that same thought. "Usually," says Niekro, 48, meaning every year of the past 24, "my blood starts flowing as soon as the holidays are over. I don't know how I'm going to feel a month from now, or when the summer starts to get hot, or when the World Series comes around. I wonder what it's going to be like, never again seeing that look in the batter's eye with the bases loaded...
Imagining Rose in a perennially clean uniform is more than a little strange. Though he is approaching 47, he denies having any pangs about quitting. "Managing has been so involving, I feel like I'm almost playing," he says. "Anyway, it wouldn't be fair for me to say I'm going to miss hitting the ball, because I got to hit it more than anybody." Just as Henry Aaron's 755 home runs seem somehow more difficult to keep count of than Babe Ruth's 714, Rose's 4,256 hits will take a while displacing Ty Cobb...
Numbers have always consoled him. In his final appearance in the batter's box, at twilight in Cincinnati, Rose struck out on three fastballs from Goose Gossage ("I had two strikes on me before I could get the doughnut off the bat"). He also struck out in his second-to-last try. But in the final three games that Rose started, he was 8 for 13, including his tenth 5-for-5 game, one of 13 records he set that day alone. "People wonder why I didn't pinch- hit myself last season for a ceremonial goodbye, but a manager...
Since Opposition Leader Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan from exile in Britain in April 1986, her political fortunes have suffered setbacks. Now Bhutto, 34, has decided to test her luck at marriage. Last week the daughter of the late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was wed under a rose-garlanded canopy to Asif Ali Zardari, 34, scion of a wealthy Pakistani family. The Muslim union, arranged by the families of the bride and groom, took place at the Bhutto family residence in Karachi...