Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ovation swelled last Wednesday, everyone in Cincinnati's brimming ball park felt close to Rose, but only First Base Coach Tommy Helms was nearby. A quarter of a century ago, Helms and Rose were minor-league roommates, partners in mischief, who both became Rookies of the Year in the National League. A temporal way of fixing Rose's career is to remember that Helms actually followed him to that eminence by three seasons but has already beaten him to pasture by eight. Displaying tenderness publicly for the first time maybe in 44 years, the great roughneck laid his head...
...cool, coming-of-autumn evening on the Ohio River. At Rose's every motion, the flashes from the instant cameras made a light show. Enough newsmen joined the "Rose Watch" to prompt the youngest Cincinnati players to ask their manager in hushed voices, "Is this what a World Series is like?" Rose grinned and nodded. A few days before in Chicago, a left-handed Cubs pitcher wrecked his shoulder in a bicycle accident, and for several hours the city of Cincinnati was listed in critical condition. Throughout his 23rd season, Rose has played himself routinely against right-handers. So, starting...
Fifty-seven years to the day since Cobb pinch-hit and popped up in his final major-league at bat, Rose stroked a clean single to left center on a 2-1 slider from Eric Show in the first inning of a 2-0 victory over the San Diego Padres. "You missed a good ball game tonight," Rose told President Reagan over the phone. For some reason, Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and National League President Chub Feeney missed it too. Not only did Rose score both runs and make a defensive dive for the final out, but unbelievably...
This is not a vendetta against the irascible genius who batted .367 over 24 seasons, though relative merits are always debatable (see box). Rose has decided "you couldn't be that bad a guy and get 4,191 hits." And he has known all along "you can't compare Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb with Peter Rose and (Boston's .349-batting) Wade Boggs. I respect all of the old-timers. They did what they had to do against the competition they had to play against. The travel was better in those days; the surfaces are better today...
Unlike Ruth-chaser 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...