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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...
...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 as it was, might have seemed diminished. "I wonder how he felt," Rose muses with concern. Shifting, he says, "How do we know, 100 years from now, that they won't be pitching from 80 ft. instead of 60 ft. 6 in.? You can't say any record is unbreakable. Cobb never imagined I would be coming along...
...Pittsburgh Pirates died in a plane crash almost 13 years ago at 38, the approximate measure of a great hitter has become precise. Clemente had 3,000 hits exactly. That Carew, 39, would get the single for California against his old team, the Minnesota Twins, was another wonder of happenstance. But his shorter ration of the day's glory was predictable. When Carew said, "I'm just very glad it's over," the sigh recalled Henry Aaron's relief in 1974 after hitting the 715th home run that bettered Babe Ruth. "Aaron was as good as Willie Mays," Pete Rose...
...young biotechnology industry has already shown that it can perform miracles of science, creating marvelous synthetic molecules with the potential to attack cancer or stop heart attacks. Now the genetic engineering companies are out to prove that they can work the same magic in the marketplace, turning those wonder drugs into profitmakers. Last week Genentech, an industry leader based in south San Francisco, began selling its first drug product for humans: Protropin, a growth hormone used to treat dwarfism in children. Genentech had previously developed Humulin, a synthetic insulin, but licensed it to an established pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly, which...
...untimely end. Dylan, however, released his 29th album, Empire Burlesque, in June, and, on that evidence, is still working at full power. So Columbia Records' release of Biograph puts him into a unique position: he is competing with himself, and is stacked up against his own past besides. No wonder he has professed mixed feelings about the Biograph project and took no part in the song selection...