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...secretly believe that they have been overestimated, and that at any moment the truth about them will out. According to two new books, their private feelings of fraudulence are shared by an estimated 70% of all successful individuals. In The Impostor Phenomenon (Peachtree Publishers, Ltd.; $14.95), Dr. Pauline Rose Clance, a professor of psychology at Georgia State University who first identified the syndrome, explains that many such impostors are perfectionists who can never meet their own standards...
...spectators know that the struggle represents no less than a Simple love of life. This beguiling summer, the most single-minded baseball player since Ty Cobb has done better than play with time. He has reached back into it to play with Cobb. It took Pete Rose two decades and more, just a blink and a nod on the eternal baseball schedule, but he has come to both a paramount moment in his game and a place of moment in any enterprise. By the numbers and beyond them, he is what he does. Rose is baseball...
Then in 1973 players won the right to submit salary disputes to an independent arbitrator. The arbitrator was compelled to choose either the club's offer or the player's demand, and salaries inevitably rose. True deliverance came two years later, when players won freedom from the so-called reserve clause that tied them to one team for as long as the owner wanted them. Now players with six years' experience could in a sense sell themselves to the highest bidder. The combination of arbitration and free agency sent salaries spiraling sevenfold in less than a decade, from an average...
...what they longed to do, chasing fly balls and elusive records in ball parks filled with fans. This is the real world of baseball, which is itself a beautifully unreal world. Magically last Thursday night, the man of the hour ceased to be Peter Ueberroth and again became Pete Rose. --By Evan Thomas. Reported by Thomas McCarroll/New York, with other bureaus
...states, "I'm not scared to say I love the game." As though he ever was afraid. "But my players are." For a year, Rose has been the manager as well as the usual first baseman of the Cincinnati Reds, his hometown and original team. "Maybe it's because everyone knows how much money we make, but today's young players hold something in. Just on the field and in public. It comes out in the clubhouse, when only the other players can see." Joy is the word. "Twenty-five years ago, they gave me $400 a month to play...