Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afternoon of Oct. 18, 1988, two University of Nevada-Las Vegas basketball players, David Butler and Moses Scurry, walked through the casino at Caesars Palace and out to the pool to have lunch with a man they knew as Sam Perry. As Perry rose to greet the two, he drew a wad of cash from his pocket and peeled off a bill for each of them. "I gave them a hundred bucks, so what?" Perry told Art Ross, a professional coach who was sitting with Perry. "Everybody does it. It keeps them out of trouble...
Baseball and Pete Rose, once thought to be inseparable institutions, teetered last week on the edge of an almost unbearable sadness. Several Cincinnati-area bookmakers allege that Rose has been betting on baseball games. If Rose is found to have gambled on baseball, he can expect a year's suspension as Reds manager. If he bet on Cincinnati games, Rose could be shunned for life by the sport he personifies, jeopardizing everything he has accomplished, even the place in baseball's Hall of Fame that awaits...
...first alarm bell rang in February, when Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and National League President A. Bartlett Giamatti summoned Rose to New York City for a private conversation on a secret subject. Reporters who knew Rose guessed gambling. Last week Ueberroth acknowledged that his office was conducting an ongoing investigation into "serious allegations" after Ron Peters and Alan Statman, a saloon-keeping bookie and his lawyer, claimed they had been cooperating with the commissioner's office. They offered to expand on their testimony for a fee to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Both publications demurred. But the story began...
...ordinarily bright spring-training atmosphere was further darkened by proliferating reports that Rose has blown his fortune on wagers. The Dayton Daily News stated that he recently sold the bat and ball from his record 4,192nd hit. Rose responded with a melancholy "No comment." None of his comments throughout the besieged week were more expansive than a flippant remark to S.I.: "I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball...
...hometown Cincinnatian too enthusiastic ever to walk to first base, Rose arrived in the major leagues as a flat-topped Reds second baseman whom Mickey Mantle rechristened "Charlie Hustle." Through 24 seasons at five positions, Rose devoured the game with such a primitive pleasure that people said he had skipped his true generation. Usually sliding on his stomach, he inched closer and closer to the dustiest of legends until in 1985 he passed Ty Cobb in total hits and kept on going to a record 4,256 hits and 3,562 games. Then he became the legend...