Watching the Dodger fans throw stuff at the Padres left fielder while reading your story Paul is like adding garlic & red pepper on my pizza. Thank you for what you do!
Indeed. It's been a rather busy season for misbehavior, hasn't it? We look forward to covering it in about thirty years! Or maybe in the offseason. One or the other.
When I was 5 years old, My Dad saw Rose and our Reds were coming in to Chicago, like always we were ready to go to Wrigley Field to root our Reds on!
My Dad, Mom, 3 Brothers and 1 Sister walked in to Wrigley and sat behind the Cubs Dugout way up under the DARK grandstand surrounded by Cubs fans who did not like to see us coming in to sit down among them!
I was too young to know a lot of what was going on but a DO remember the loud noisy fans showering the field w cups and hotdog wrappers from the outfield bleachers… and I remember Rose and the Reds winning and our family going Royce’s in the stands!
Great article you have written about this game! I always wanted some media person to ask Rose about it so I could hear his take on it all… but the media seemed to be clueless about this game!
Thanks for sharing your memories of it! I love telling these stories to bring them to a broader audience, but I REALLY love it when folks who do remember them can come in and their own pieces. It was an epic game, and I found multiple instances where, years later, Rose cited it as one of the most memorable regular season games of his career. Baseball games come and go so quickly, and for the players with long careers, the years must blur together. Sometimes we lose sight of these obscure midseason gems, but not this one, at least for him.
The G.O.A.T. in that respect, at minimum. I also recognize that he had many more chances to talk, given his celebrity status and longevity, so there's some bias there.
In Part II he'll be back to describe the ending of the day, something he did at least twice a decade or so later, because he was the caliber of player who would regularly get these kind of questions. "What's your favorite non-milestone game you played in?" Which is basically a reporter asking for a story.
Thank you for reading and the words of affirmation. ALWAYS appreciated.
I'm enjoying the bejezus outa these tales. Thanks. Please keep it up.
Watching the Dodger fans throw stuff at the Padres left fielder while reading your story Paul is like adding garlic & red pepper on my pizza. Thank you for what you do!
Indeed. It's been a rather busy season for misbehavior, hasn't it? We look forward to covering it in about thirty years! Or maybe in the offseason. One or the other.
When I was 5 years old, My Dad saw Rose and our Reds were coming in to Chicago, like always we were ready to go to Wrigley Field to root our Reds on!
My Dad, Mom, 3 Brothers and 1 Sister walked in to Wrigley and sat behind the Cubs Dugout way up under the DARK grandstand surrounded by Cubs fans who did not like to see us coming in to sit down among them!
I was too young to know a lot of what was going on but a DO remember the loud noisy fans showering the field w cups and hotdog wrappers from the outfield bleachers… and I remember Rose and the Reds winning and our family going Royce’s in the stands!
Great article you have written about this game! I always wanted some media person to ask Rose about it so I could hear his take on it all… but the media seemed to be clueless about this game!
Thanks for sharing your memories of it! I love telling these stories to bring them to a broader audience, but I REALLY love it when folks who do remember them can come in and their own pieces. It was an epic game, and I found multiple instances where, years later, Rose cited it as one of the most memorable regular season games of his career. Baseball games come and go so quickly, and for the players with long careers, the years must blur together. Sometimes we lose sight of these obscure midseason gems, but not this one, at least for him.
Say what you will about the man but Pete Rose = Great Copy.
The G.O.A.T. in that respect, at minimum. I also recognize that he had many more chances to talk, given his celebrity status and longevity, so there's some bias there.
In Part II he'll be back to describe the ending of the day, something he did at least twice a decade or so later, because he was the caliber of player who would regularly get these kind of questions. "What's your favorite non-milestone game you played in?" Which is basically a reporter asking for a story.