Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inexhaustibly, Rose softened everyone's wait by spinning old baseball tales, some of them set in speakeasies. Like the time in Chicago when a number of the Yankees, conversing too loudly about the "Big Guy," momentarily found themselves in the company of Al Capone. "If you want an autograph from the Big Guy," they were advised, "don't go inside your pocket for a pen." Wistfully, Rose wished he could meet the Big Guy. "He'd have to give you a tip on a horse or something, wouldn...
Modern baseball players acquainted with Little Big Guys shared the week's news columns. Rose's warm moment was a distraction and counterbalance to the drug scandal, though redemption goes too far. During the Pittsburgh trial, Rose's name was tossed around loosely when one of those informed reformers, certainly not reformed informers, ran out of fresh cocaine and started throwing stale amphetamines. Except to say that he didn't think much of the proceedings, Rose resisted efforts to stretch a single into a symbol...
Afterward he contended, "I'm not smart enough to really have the words to describe my feelings." But he is wise enough to know when a picture needs no caption, such as the tableau of the two Roses and the endless cycle that survives even plagues. "He's a good boy," Rose said. "Nobody's going to get mad at him if he can't get 2,000, 3,000 hits." He shot Petey a 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...
...there for Rose to pursue? "I'll make somebody up," he said without care, "somebody who has 4,300 hits or so. I haven't decided his name yet." Charlie Something. And every time he gets a hit, or makes an out, or just plays a game, it's a record...
...action shows have gone on location to spice their tales with big-city ambience. Chicago is the locale for ABC's Lady Blue, a hard-edged cop show about a female homicide detective who shoots first and asks questions later, a sort of Dirty Harriet. Red-haired Jamie Rose wields her .357 magnum like a pro, and Danny Aiello is fine as her exasperated boss. The series is scheduled to be replaced in November by Dynasty II: The Colbys, a spin-off of the hit soap. But if it maintains the quality of its exciting two-hour pilot, Lady Blue...