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...Rose's first night on the road, he came in at curfew to find that his roommate had put the chain on the door. "I didn't know where to go, but finally I went to Vada's room and he let me stay over. I remember it like yesterday because the next morning was the first time in my life I ever had room service. Vada bought breakfast. It was $12.75." His store of figures charms most people but bothers a few. On the last day of Rose's rookie season, Stan Musial scratched a single to each side...
...close of Rose's sophomore season, Cincinnati lost the pennant on the last day, but a more profound loss changed him. "We saw Hutch go from 220 lbs. to 140 lbs. with cancer that year and never once complain. Tough. Really tough. Great. He was a man. It was like a skeleton walking into the clubhouse to conduct a meeting, but that skeleton was in charge. It did something to me, lifted my intensity a level, made me approach long-term goals like they were short-term goals. That winter I was playing for Reggie Otero, Hutch's third-base...
...following season was the first of the 15 years that Rose hit .300 or better, the first of his ten seasons with 200 hits or more, a feat unmatched even by Cobb. Last season, throughout major league baseball, only four men accumulated 200 hits. Looking at Rose's and Cobb's distinction the simplest way, all anyone must do to gather 4,191 hits is to come up with 200 a year for 20 years and then get 191 more. Against this standard last week, the 3,000th hit of seven-time Batting Champion Rod Carew, 39, splendid...
Every great athlete fascinates Rose. Once he used to sit up all night in the car listening to West Coast games; now he keeps his satellite dish as hot as a wok. He peppers his discourses on his own records with Richie Allen's homers and Jim Bunning's shutouts. Rose is no more self-centered than a fried egg. "Sometimes I get the feeling that everyone thinks I spend all of my time working out statistics," he says defensively. As a matter of fact, First Wife Karolyn testifies, "There never was a morning when I didn't see Pete...
...life painted entirely by the numbers does have a certain sad cast to it. But baseball is founded on statistics, after all, and as Rose puts it wonderfully, "If you have 70-some hits against Phil Niekro, and you have 40-some hits against Joe Niekro, that's over 100 hits against the Niekro family, isn't it? One-fortieth of my hits. Who wouldn't know that? Don't you know how much money you have in the bank?" At the same time, his prized distinction is the fact that he has played in 1,916 winning games. "That...