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...Fenway Franks. The Wall. Falling asleep a little bit faster on the evenings when you know your favorite team has won. The dreamy, remembered presence of immortals like the Ruths. Cobbs and Aarons which create an almost mystic aura in all big league baseball parks. The excitement generated by Pete Rose attempting to break DiMaggio's record of 56 games. Three-and-two bases loaded two outs bottom of the ninth tie score and Reggie's up. The great legacies of the Yankees. Tigers and even the hapless Cubs History And the tradition...
...Pete Rose won the Rookie of the Year Award in 1963 and is still active. Which player disappeared from the big league scene shortly after winning the same award in 1980? He was famous for extracting his own teeth to save money...
...letting loose of it even for a day seems important now to Pete Rose, almost 42, bothered by the Phillies' predisposition to rest him occasionally this season. But his dismay is blunted by his happiness at being back in the company of old Cincinnati comrades Joe Morgan, 39, and Tony Perez, 40. Besides, Rose has a plan. "Whenever I'm out of the lineup, I'll drive [Manager] Pat Corrales so nuts he'll have to get me out of the dugout. My edge has always been to play every day, to try to lead...
...bright little man who was a whirlwind for the Reds in the '70s, Morgan believes modestly that he will be Rose's edge this year. "Pete will want to prove to Joe Morgan he can still play, just as I want to show Pete Rose I can still play." Their clubhouse method of staying loose is to ridicule each other and everyone else fondly, but often mercilessly. How this will play in Philadelphia, where feelings are fragile, should be interesting. "When you kid around," says Perez, who supplies the perspective, as usual, "you become a friend, not just...
...bomber, we will be accepting permanent nuclear inferiority," he said. Weinberger's campaign to win congressional approval for his spending plans will be long and difficult. At a meeting earlier in the week, Republican leaders of the Senate Budget Committee urged Weinberger to accept significant cuts. Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico has indicated that the proposed increase in spending of 10% after inflation may have to be sliced in half. But the Administration has remained firm, and no formula for a compromise has emerged in the Senate. In the face of this impasse, Domenici postponed further deliberations...