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From the moment he heard the Phillies would be helping the Minnesota Twins christen their new ballpark this spring, Pete wanted the first baseball hit safely in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. It is rolling around in his dresser drawer now. "I might as well get them all," says Rose of the souvenir balls that have marked his trail like Hansel's breadcrumbs. "Soon I'll have made more outs than anybody, and I want that baseball...
...York's Shea Stadium a few nights ago, the Phillies were taking infield practice and chat tering brightly. From a 4-and-12 start ("It wasn't fun playing," Pete whispers, a little ashamed), the Phillies had found their way back to first place under new Manager Pat Corrales. In the drill, Pete played first base. Looking around, he had to laugh. Corrales and Coach Deron Johnson, who was wielding the fungo bat, are his old Cincinnati teammates; another coach, Dave Bristol, managed him there and in the minors; Mets Pitcher Pat Zachry, kibitzing near...
...just Rose's appearance that seems old style but his manner. Rose with 3,793 hits is not merely chasing the snarling ghost of Ty Cobb (4,191 hits), he is Cobb. Delightfully coarse and direct, Pete "was asked by a New York Timesman if he knew much about Cobb. "I know everything about him but the size of his hat" was the quote that made the paper, though that was not what he said exactly. Rose does know almost every thing about Cobb-and about Babe Ruth. "First of all, Ruth al ways wore the same white robe...
...base seven or eight years ago, and now he is almost exclusively a designated hitter (a tenth man who only hits, an American League aberration). He is platooned with Rose's old comrade, 40-year-old Tony Perez, who takes the lefthanded pitchers, while Yaz gets the righthanders. "Pete is a hitting machine; Yaz is a hard-working hitter," says Perez, who collected his own 2,500th hit the other day. Yastrzemski's career batting average (.286) is the lowest of the 15 men who have made 3,000 hits. He had to grind harder and longer...
...back in Dallas to watch the end of the game on television, to see Perez win it for the National League with a home run in the 15th inning. Mantle starts the story mirthfully but finishes it regretfully. The American League had enough good players, just not enough Pete Roses, hunkered down cheering on the dugout steps even after they were out of the game...