Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Always a numbers man, Rose was at the vanguard of baseball's economic revolt. His original ambition, "to be the first $100,000 singles hitter," sounds quaint now. In the late 1970s he made an auction out of the new free- agent system, and for $3.2 million over four years stopped off in Philadelphia to show the Phillies...
...player, Rose savored six World Series and three world titles. But in four seasons as a manager, he has directed the Reds to second place in the National League's West Division four times. Even before the gambling charges, Cincinnati owner Marge Schott was said to be impatient with...
Imagining baseball without Rose is hard, but imagining Rose without baseball is horrible. On plane rides home from the World Series, he used to calculate the number of days to spring training. He marks time by the inning, even in references to his birth in 1941, usually adding, "the year of Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak." During Rose's own hitting streak in 1978 -- the National League standard of 44 -- he was caught in a paternity suit, and his marriage was dissolving. Only between the white lines of the field was he serene. Last week, before...
...Kuhn politely ordered casino glad-handers Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle to stay away from baseball until they quit playing golf with gamblers. To much applause, Ueberroth rescinded that ban four years ago. In the last week of his tenure (Giamatti takes office April 1), the Rose affair may make him wonder if that was such a great signal...
Faced with allegations of illegal sports betting, Pete Rose sweats out an investigation of his gambling habits -- and the prospect of a ruined career...