tpweather wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2024 7:14 am
MVWxObserver wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2024 6:55 am
tpweather wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2024 6:17 am
MVWxObserver wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 10:56 pm
He should have been in the HOF years ago!!
Sad day and to me the most exciting player ever to play the game. His passion was there every day and its sad of what happen with the gambling especially since every other commercial deals with a gambling site.I had 2 hero's growing up as a kid with one being Tony Sands and the other Pete Rose. I wish he would have been able to manage after 1989 because his knowledge of the game unbelievable. I was very lucky to see the Big Red Machine and compared it some of earlier Yankees team with all the great players. Dinner tonight will be a hot dog and beer watching one of the baseball playoff games.RIP
Hi Tim,
I always loved Tony Sands and Pete Rose, too. Also Ira Joe Fisher with his talent of drawing and writing backwards via a white marker on a plexiglass weather map board. I remember when Pete had returned to the Reds as a player-manager and Ira Joe drew a likeness of Pete's backside in uniform with a famous hairstyle of his and said "Pete's Back!"
I'll always cherish those years 1975-1976, too, as it was so very cool seeing our beloved team take down both the Red Sox and Athletics!!
I never liked Bart Giamatti after what he did to Pete and its very sad that MLB in general tried to make Rose into a pariah because of his gambling problem. Was sad to see Pete locked up in that federal prison in Marion, IL like a serial killer. Some other MLB players have made it into Cooperstown despite infractions that they've committed! Pete never took performance-enhancing drugs or abused alcohol e.g. I truly hope that this year's postseason is one where Les's Tigers GO ALL THE WAY!!
Hey Eric and great post. I believe the Reds beat the Red Sox in 1975 which was one of the most exciting World Series of all time. 1976 they beat the Yankees in 4 straight. They lost to Baltimore in 1970 and the Athletics in 1972. During the mid 70's of course the Red's had one of the all time teams but the Dodgers were probably the best team besides the Reds.
Thank you bro as I had a team name right but just a wrong year.
The Reds had beaten the Yankees in that WS just one year before Reggie "Mr. October" Jackson joined the Bronx Bombers.
When I resided in southeast NY state for 2 1/2 years I went with some friends to a Yankees game at the former Yankee Stadium and they beat the Orioles on an unseasonably cool June 1988 night. Billy "Billy Ball" Martin was manager at the time and Don Mattingly, Willie Randolph, Ron Guidry, Dave Righetti, Joe Niekro, Tommy John, Dave Winfield, and Rickey Henderson e.g. etc. were with the team.
That was the only American League game I've been to in my life.
