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...player had less enthusiasm for striking, but to the discomfort of his employer, Rose supported the union: "I needed the Players' Association's permission to take a cut over the maximum 20% to return to Cincinnati." This shift dropped him from a high of nearly $2 million to below $500,000. He smiles. "Where would I be without the Players' Association?" Had the owners elected to bluff through a struck season with minor leaguers, he was agreeable to managing the Reds. But Rose, the player, would have been on strike. "I wasn't going to get the hit that...
...timer? He is the Cro-Magnon man. Going into last weekend, he needed 20 more hits before he would reach 4,191, return to 1928 and rendezvous with the roughest competitor in baseball's history, Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Somehow Rose overshot his true generation, and has had to hustle almost a quarter of a century to rejoin a gang of bronze men just like him. "Wagner, Speaker, Musial, Aaron--Ty Cobb." He rattles off the last of the stops he has been hurrying past for years. "Ty Cobb," he says with, wonder. Rose's ten-month-old son is named...
Until last year, when New York Yankees Pitcher Waite ("Schoolboy") Hoyt died grudgingly at 84, he served Rose as a Cobb historian and utility Merlin. Having been a pallbearer for Babe Ruth, Hoyt was a certified carrier of legends. In retelling tales of Cobb, Rose animatedly acts them out, clapping the dirt off his thighs just so, snatching up particles of outfield grass in the pristine signal that Player-Manager Cobb had for a knockdown pitch...
...that Rose admires viciousness. "I know," he says, "people picture me running over Ray Fosse in the All-Star Game [of 1970]." Scoring the winning run, Rose spread the catcher like apple butter. Fosse's shoulder and career came unhinged. "I wish it hadn't happened," Rose says. "It ruined that kid." But he adds, "I'm glad we won the game." Regarding comparisons with Cobb, Rose joins in few of the arguments. "I don't steal bases like he did, and he didn't wear a tie on the road like I do." It will be fine with Rose...
Pointedly Rose likes to wonder how many errors Cobb committed, suggesting that he knows there were more than a few. Beyond the five different positions that Rose has played in the All-Star Game (first, second, third, left and right), he is proud of changing posts several times for the good of his team and vain about his outfielding record (.991). He does not dwell on how many fewer games (3,034 to 3,455) and at bats (11,429 to 13,689) Cobb enjoyed over his 24 seasons...