Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reds' Rose of summer breaks free and makes a mint...
...young Rockefeller making the rounds of his father's friends? No, Peter Edward Rose, 37, third baseman extraordinary, tour guide and head auctioneer of the most remarkable free-agent sale in baseball history. So well did Rose peddle himself that the former Cincinnati Reds star moved to the top of the list of baseball's new millionaires last week, signing a four-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies for about $3.5 million. That would make him, at $875,000 a year (or $5,400 a game during the regular season), the highest paid baseball player in history, surpassing...
Actually, Rose could have been even richer. Atlanta, Kansas City, St. Louis and Pittsburgh offered fatter deals than Philadelphia. But Rose was friendly with some Phillies stars and wanted to stay in the National League so that he could chase down Stan Musial's record of 3,630 career hits (Rose now has 3,164), and he fancied the Phils' billiard-slick artificial turf, which will help his ground balls whiz past infielders. Perhaps most of all, he delighted in the challenge of making the talented also-rans of a town of renowned losers into a winner. Proclaimed...
...contract was certainly good for Rose, but was it good for baseball? Since the practice began in 1976, free-agent proceedings that allowed Rose to put himself on the market have been bemoaned by owners as the potential ruination of the game. The owners claimed free agents would destroy baseball because the rich teams would buy up all the good players. Since 1976, a total of 65 free agents have signed contracts worth upwards of $60 million. Some teams have benefited, those that bid not only well but wisely. Spending some $10 million on free agents, the New York Yankees...
...Pete Rose, for one, scoffs at the notion that his fight for money has eroded the game, and understandably he has little pity for owners. When his batting average dropped to .284 in 1974, the first time below .300 in ten seasons, the Reds tried to cut the salary of the home-town hero by 20%. It was the first salvo in a bitter fight that ended last week with Rose pulling down a Phillies cap over his pageboy. Rose also knows he can sell a lot of tickets for the Phils to cover his salary. Says baseball...