This was the Pete Rose way: defiant but pleading, self-regarding and self-pitying, semi-persuasive despite his persistent ...
On the baseball diamond, Pete Rose did everything head on – barreling ... good when he joined the Reds organization in the early 1960s. He won Rookie of the Year in 1963, just a preview of ...
In Pete Rose’s old neighborhood on the West Side ... and in the minor leagues in the early 1960s, he infuriated other players ...