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...there anything you want to say?" Rose asked Robinson in farewell after an extended monologue and a lengthy silence. "Yes," the pitcher said finally. "I hope you don't get any more hits." Rose was dumbfounded: "What did you say?" Robinson blurted, "I hope you stop hitting." In a smaller voice, he added, "Because I don't want you to get the hit until I get back." The manager regarded his young player with a look of amazing optimism that both of them felt. "Don't worry, I'll wait for you," Rose said. Robinson is back with the Reds...
...first day in the majors, the centerfielder walked, then took off for second base. Eighty years later, players are still trying to catch Ty Cobb. Maury Wills first did it in 1962 when he ran by the old mark of 96 stolen bases in a season. Now Pete Rose, barring calamity, will exceed the hallowed record of 4,191 hits. But, like Wills, he will surpass only the man, not the icon...
...career." That day he went six for six: two singles, a double and three home runs. The following game he hit two more homers. The Peach had made his point; he hit just seven more home runs that season, and only 118 in a career of 3,034 games. Rose has hit 159 homers, though only one in the last three years...
...blood in the dust. All along, he bench-jockeyed with the worst of them. More than the changed quality of travel or gloves, the widening of the country or the times of the games, the exclusion of black players in Cobb's day may be the best point on Rose's side of the comparative arguments. But Cobb would not have had it any other way. Racist remarks, particularly about Negro ancestry, were his favorites. Even the affamble Babe chided him, "I don't mind being called a son of a bitch or a bastard, but ... none of that personal...
...Cobb complained about the decline of his sport. "The fabric of baseball is crumbling, "he warned. "I'd want players less interested hi a bonus, a business manager and a bowling alley than in fighting to win." But he was surprisingly modern in his self-interest. Like Rose he became a player-manager with a mouthful of statistics, mostly about his own achievements. Like Rose he was a headlong competitor whose determination made him exceed more gifted men. And like Rose he grew wealthy with shrewd investments, a high salary and the willingness to endorse a variety store of products...