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...year-old ballplayer, the end is more than just perceivable. The fight to hold it off is well on. And the 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...
...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 Tyler only because Carol, his second wife, would not approve Tyrus, though he lobbied passionately. "If I was chasing Schmedley Milton...
...first day in the majors, the centerfielder walked, then took off for second base. Eighty years later, players are still trying to catch Ty Cobb. Maury Wills first did it in 1962 when he ran by the old mark of 96 stolen bases in a season. Now Pete Rose, barring calamity, will exceed the hallowed record of 4,191 hits. But, like Wills, he will surpass only the man, not the icon...
...vicinity of his clavicle and remained there for the rest of his life. Tyrus Raymond Cobb's father, W.H., a school commissioner, thought of his son as a potential doctor or lawyer. As Professor Cobb saw it, baseball players were drunken, wenching, low-salaried louts. He relented when Ty refused to go to college, but the old man warned him, "Don't come home a failure...
That was before Extreme Makeover: Home Edition found her. Home Edition brought in its army of designers, led by bullhorn-wielding host Ty Pennington, to do what it does best: destroy a home in order to save it. After shipping Harris and kin off for a week's vacation in Carlsbad, Calif., 100 workers and neighbors tore her home down to the foundation and built a new, bigger one. They replaced the Christmas toys and donated appliances, mattresses and landscaping to her flood-stricken neighbors. They even threw in a basketball court for the neighborhood kids...