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...playing a game like this?' That's a particular moment for me, but as I look back, it seems that all of the great moments are from World Series and playoffs. Winning baseball games has meant the most to me." In that Series Cincinnati won the seventh game. Rose...
Retiring has yet to occur to him. "I might play next season, I might play the year after that. I just can't think of anything better to do in the summertime." But Rose surely understands that before too long he will be a manager exclusively, and all managers eventually receive a summer off. He has a plan: "I was raised 1 10 miles from the Indy 500 and 100 miles from the Kentucky Derby. I love cars and horses, but I've never been to either. Someday I'll go." Latching onto the record, Wheaties, coin minters...
...build character and confidence in young players, stick with them in some jams and show them what's really at the bottom of this game." Second in their division and unsatisfied, the Reds have been baseball's most surprising contenders. In contrast to many accomplished players-turned-managers, Rose is described by his troops as almost always patient and almost never distant. "You know how managers always say, 'I don't care if they like me as long as they respect me?' Well, that ain't my philosophy." He sees talent everywhere. "I was the guy everyone said couldn...
...recommendation every old manager makes to every new one is to execute the squad cuts briskly. However, never having been demoted, Rose says, "I just can't do it quick. If they want to, I'll talk all day." The last of five cut last spring was a sloe-eyed and red-freckled pitcher, Ron Robinson, fondly nicknamed "True Creature." "Shoot, I've idolized him," says Robinson, who was one year old when Rose broke in. "The day Pete was made the manager, I was the first player in the clubhouse. 'How are you doing, Ron?' he called over...
Robinson lasted one-third of an inning in his starting debut, suffering four hits and four errors. Rose eventually arrived at the mound. " 'I got to take you out,' he told me. 'No reason. I just got to. You got bad luck or something, kid. Go home and turn your mirrors the other way.' " That was worse than devastating, but not as awful as being the last...