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Exactly when Rose first made out the ghost's gray outline is unclear. But on the 1973 night of his 2,000th hit, near the end of an interview, he observed casually, "Cobb took this long to get 1,861." By 1981, when Rose led the league in hits at the age of 40, but 55 games were struck, he was heard to worry, "Cobb is getting further away." If not in Philadelphia at the mean end of the 1983 World Series against Baltimore, then in Montreal at the bad beginning of last year, the chase seemed doomed. Thanks...
Meanwhile, Cincinnati's attendance had crash-dived from 2.6 million at the 1976 crest of the Red Machine to 1.2 million in 1983. For his turnstile appeal, certainly not his .259 batting average, Rose was called home last August. He singled and doubled in his first game, slid himself into a perfect mudball, and hit .365 the rest of the year. He could take his time with Cobb after that, and he has. Platooning at first base with another reclaimed icon, Tony Perez, 43, Rose sees to the right-handed pitchers. Though a switch hitter, he bats predominantly left-handed...
...National League. "I can't ask my players to be selective at the plate if I'm not," he reasons. Also, he has been hit by the pitcher three times. "I have to show them how to use their elbows, don't I?" Pitchers try to overpower Rose inside, but his solution to waning bat speed has long been just to choke up a little more. Soon he may be holding the bat by the wrong end. In the meantime he is wearing out the left-field rug with liners and pulling more than a few balls into right field...
...When I started, my age now would have boggled my mind. But these days I think anything's possible." Niekro lacks six victories for 300. The wise Chicago White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver, 40, got there last week. He has lost only the least of his gifts, velocity. Discussing Rose, he says, "Pitchers don't have to run, remember. Not that Pete was ever a very fast runner, just a very smart one. Generally speaking, I don't think he ever tried to do more than his body would...
This is the impression Rose has painstakingly conveyed. "The only way I'll say I was lucky is that I was born with no handicaps," he says defiantly. "Al1 the drinking I didn't do, all the smoking I didn't do, that was my own dedication. [He has been less circumspect around women and has also shown more than an academic interest in horses.] I've had broken toes and hyper-extended elbows, but the only time I didn't play was when I couldn't walk out there. You know, I don't ever catch cold...