RIP Pete Rose
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Pete Rose's career is a testament to how bad baseball executives used to be. Dude hit .245 with 0 homers, and 17 XBH in 555 plate appearances and an OPS of like .602 in his age 42 season. He was washed. And he got 3 MORE SEASONS after that. Wild.
In his age 39 season, he won a title with the Phillies in a season where he played all 162 games, hit 1 homer, and had 42 doubles. No one puts up numbers that skewed away from power hitting anymore.
Dude's major league career predated the Beatles appearance on Ed Sullivan, and outlasted Zeppelin and good Pink Floyd.
In his age 39 season, he won a title with the Phillies in a season where he played all 162 games, hit 1 homer, and had 42 doubles. No one puts up numbers that skewed away from power hitting anymore.
Dude's major league career predated the Beatles appearance on Ed Sullivan, and outlasted Zeppelin and good Pink Floyd.
As far as I'm concerned, Pete Rose was the only reason to be a Phillies fan unless you lived there and didn't know anything else.
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My Dad,Uncle, Cousin and I went to a game at the old Riverfront when Rose was player manager. I took as many pictures as I could of him. My Grandpa was a HUGE Reds fan and just loved Pete. He was very sad when he left Cincy. My Grandpa did root for the Phillies in 80 when Rose won the WS with them.
Don Mattingly used to own a nice restaurant/bar in Evansville years ago. Some friends of mine were there one night and Mattingly and Pete Rose were behind the bar that evening - that would have been something to see.
Rose did that in 83 when the Phillies lost. In 80 when the Phillies won his numbers were better. 282 average and over 700 ops. In 1984 he hit .286. Are you telling me he wasnt productive through 1984? Hell his 1985 stats were decent especially considering he was well into his 40s. Good guy... not arguing. As a baseball player he may not be even top 50. Hes still the damn hit king though...
We lived near Lexington, Ky and a friend's wife worked for a Lexington radio station. They had Reds tickets they would give out to their bigger accounts. She snagged 4 Reds - Cardinals tickets and we went to the game. The Cards were down 7-2 and came back to win 9-7 to my pleasure and my friends pain as he had been talking trash.
It was the last home game Rose would manage. They went on the road and he was fired. I'll never forget him leaning on the dugout railing while the game burned down around him.
If they try to put Pete into the HOF, I hope his family tells them to GFY. If he was banned during his life, why should his death change anything? If they are tempted to put him in the HOF, I would ask why they didn't make an old man happy and do it while he was alive?
I wasn't a Reds or Rose fan, but those Reds teams were amazing to watch. My Grandma became a Reds fan (much to our disappointment) and her favorite player was Joe Morgan. At least she stopped being a Cub fan.
We ate there many times. We had our Plaza Booster league draft in the room on the North side of the building one year. My son said Mattingly stops in at Casey.s Dugout when he is in town. Casey's has a lot of Mattingly memorabilia inside and is owned by the late Clint Keown's brother.
