10—The Daily Collegian Thursday, Sept. 12,1985
collegian notes
• The Conversant Program will • The American Society of Trans- • Amnesty International will meet
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• The Golden Key National Honor
Society will meet at 4 this afternoon
in the HUB Gallery.
• The Student Assistance and In
formation Center has student coun
selors available at 4 this afternoon in
135 Boucke.
• The Nittany Chemical Society
will meet at 7 tonight in 421 Davey.
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• The College Republicans will *
meet at 7 tonight in 308 Willard
• The Food Science Club will meet
at 7 tonight in 117 Borkland.
• The Kappa Phi Christian Service
Sorority will host a formal Rose Rush
Tea at 7 tonight at the Wesley Foun
dation, 256 E. College Ave.
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• The Engineering Undergraduate
Council will meet at 7:30 tonight at
Triangle Fraternity, 226 E. Beaver
Ave.
• The Block and Bridle Club will
meet at 7:30 tonight in the Meats Lab.
• The Cycling Club will meet at
7:30 tonight in 265 Willard.
• A $5OO pendant belonging to Mar
garet Pennino, 723 Hemlock St., was
reported missing Tuesday, the State
College Bureau of Police Services
said. The pendant was missing from
Pennino’s residence sometime be
tween Aug. 27 and 28, police said.
• A cassette recorder and five
tapes belonging to Jennifer
Kwiecinski, 456 E. Beaver Ave., were
reported missing Tuesday from her
residence, State College police said.
• The Marketing Association will
meet at 8 tonight in the HUB Ball
room.
• The Coalition Against Apartheid
will hold a candlelight vigil at 8
tonight on the Mall by College Avenue
and Allen Street.
• The Phi Mu Alpha Music Frater
nity will meefat 9:30 tonight in 116
Music Building.
• Leslie McEvoy, 518 E. Beaver
Ave., reported Tuesday that someone
picked between 10 and 15 bushels of
pears from two trees on her property
sometime between Sept. 8 and 9,
State College police said.
• Eileen Yarashus, 206 W. Beaver
Ave., reported yesterday that some
one punched the glass door of her
apartment when she would not allow
the person to enter, State College
police said.
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A direct correlation between good parent-student
relationships, a student’s high grade point average and
better adjustment to college life has prompted the
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“The intent of the weekend is to provide parents with
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and staff, and to experience the spirit of Penn State
through a social environment,” said Sharon Morten
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The weekend will include activities for students and
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game salute with 7,000 blue and white balloons, Mor
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Activities will kick off with a reception from 10 a.m.
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where parents will be greeted by the Penn State Glee
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“College deans, college representatives and mem
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In addition to the reception, other activities include
tours of the College of Engineering, an engineering
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On Sunday, parents may visit the University’s Par
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the free campus tours will start, Mortensen said.
The weekend salute will include tours of University
landmarks, sports facilities, museums and laborato
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at the reception and will appear in Collegian Magazine,
Peterson said.
The College of Agriculture will also offer bus tours of
its mushroom research facility, deer pens and the
University Creamery, where complimentary ice
cream cones will be distributed. In addition, the
greenhouses, Ag Arena, flower gardens and farms will
also be open from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
“Parents will be really impressed after they see
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A Lady Lions field hockey match against Ohio State
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Parents can eat a continental breakfast Saturday
morning and brunch Sunday with students in their
dining halls, Peterson said.
Mortensen said there will also be a special Sunday
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Rose lines single and triple to become baseball's all-time hit leader
By JOHN NELSON
AP Sports Writer
CINCINNATI Pete Rose broke
Ty Cobb’s career hit record last
night, 57 years to the day after Cobb’s
last swing. The historic No. 4,192 was
a characteristic single, giving the
Cincinnati Reds player-manager the
record at last and perhaps forever.
THE hit was a liner to left field on a
2-1 pitch from San Diego Padres
right-hander Eric Show with one out
in the bottom of the first inning.
It may have been the biggest little
hit in a century of baseball history.
With one swing of the bat, one of the
biggest records in all of sports fell to
the calloused, workman’s hands of
the 44-year-old Rose, in his 23rd ma
jor-league season.
He added a standup triple off Show
into the left-field corner on his third
official at-bat, giving him 4,193 hits.
He also scored twice, the first time
after a walk. The Reds won the game
2-0.
But all that was anticlimactic,
On the record at-bat, Rose took the
first pitch from Show high and out
side, and he fouled the second pitch
straight back. The third pitch was
inside, and then came what people
were waiting for.
The ball sliced gracefully into left
center field, falling in front of Carme
lo Martinez, who fielded it. on one
bounce.
Peter Edward Rose, the scrappy
“Charlie Hustle” and future Hall of
Famer, had surpassed Tyrus Ray
mond Cobb, the brawling “Georgia
Peach” and original Hall of Famer,
as baseball’s all-time hit king.
The hit triggered celebration in
Cincinnati, his hometown and where
he played his first 16 seasons and the
last VA seasons as player-manager.
His teammates streamed out of the
dugout to congratulate him, and he
was hoisted briefly onto the shoulders
of Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion.
Reds owner Marge Schott led a sell
out crowd, many of whom arrived too
late to see the hit, in wild cheers as
Rose wept on the shoulder of first
base coach Tommy Helms. When his
15-year-old son, Pete Jr., came out to
congratulate him, Rose told him: “I
love you, and I hope you pass me.”
The first-base bag was removed
and taken to the dugout, along with
the historic ball.
All Show could do was sit on the
mound until the cheering died down.
Baseball Commissioner Peter Ue
berroth, who watched Rose try and
fail to break the record Tuesday
What next
for Pete?
By JOE KAY
AP Sports Writer
CINCINNATI Baseball’s all-time
hit record isn’t the only one Pete Rose
has in his sights.
Rose, who broke Ty Cobb's all-time
hit mark of 4,191 last night, says he’s
looking to move up in other statistical
categories as well.
The Cincinnati Reds’ player-man-,
ager said he wants to join the elite
company atop the lifetime total base
category.
“I’ be interested in passing some of
those guys in total bases,” said Rose,
who currently ranks sixth on the all
time list with 5,673. “I’m right on
Babe Ruth’s heels.”
Ruth is Rose’s next target with 5,-
793 and Henry Aaron, baseball’s all
time home run king is atop the list
with 6,856.
Rose is also 101 runs scored behind
Cobb, the all-time leader with 2,244.
Rose has been on base frequently
this season, despite his .264 average.
He went into last night’s game
against San Diego tied for sixth in the
National League with a .385 on-base
percentage. His 69 walks also ranked
him sixth in the league.
Rose, a singles hitter, takes special
satisfaction in the on-base total be
cause it puts him in the company of
some of the game’s most respected
sluggers.
“Everybody thinks I’m a ‘Punch
and Judy’ hitter,” Rose said. “But
there are only five guys ahead of me,
and they’ve all got monuments, to
them.”
Rose already holds the major
league records for most games
pjayed, most at-bats, most singles,
most hits by a switch-hitter, most
total bases by a switch-hitter, and
most seasons with 200 hits, among
others.
Rose’s 4,192nd hit made him base
ball’s unparalleled hit producer. He
joked yesterday that he’ll use his
imagination to set more hit goals
when he surged ahead of Cobb.
“I’ll make somebody up who’s got
4,300 hits or so,” Rose said. “I haven’t
decided his name yet."
Red’s first baseman Pete Rose; left, celebrates with second baseman Ron Oester after Rose made a diving stop of a line drive from Padres’ batter Steve
Garvey to end last night’s game in Cincinnati.
night, was in New York when the big
moment came.
“All of baseball salutes Pete Rose
for breaking a record experts said
would never be broken,” Ueberroth
said in a statement. “His 4,192 hits is
a tribute to his great talent and
strength, his indomitable spirit and
his iron will. Not only has he reserved
a prominent spot in Cooperstown, he
'Charley Hustle' returns home in grand style
By JOE KAY
AP Sports Writer
CINCINNATI Pete Rose figures he has at
least three things in common with Ty Cobb: a
high regard for his father, a hatred of losing,
and a love of hitting.
More than any other qualities, those three
sum up Rose’s odyssey from a scrappy little
ballplayer in a Cincinnati public school to the
player who broke Ty Cobb’s all-time hit record
of 4,191, established in 1928.
Rose’s father taught him the aggressiveness
and hustle he needed to overcome his size and
average talent early in his baseball career.
His love for the game which he translates
into winning has kept him sliding head-first
through 23 major league seasons that included
nearly 2,000 winning games, more than any
other big leaguer in history.
His intensity as a hitter kept him churning
toward Cobb’s mark, a milestone that seemed
to be slipping out of reach just a year ago.
“Pete is a self-made person," said Paul
Nohr, his high-school baseball coach. “What
he’s done has been through hard work, hard
practice and hustle.”
Hustle. More than any single word, hustle
sums up Rose’s approach to the game.
As a youngster, he had to hustle in order to
succeed.
“Pete will tell you this: he was an'average
ballplayer,” said Nohr, who coached 11 even
tual major-leaguers, including Rose, at West
ern Hills High School. “He was not exceptional.
“I don’t think there’s any question that his
desire is what put him ahead. And one of the big
influences on Pete was his dad.”
Pete calls Harry Rose the “King of Hustle.”
His father, a banker, played semi-pro football
into his 40s with the same intensity that burns
in Rose.
“One day my father broke his hip on a kickoff
and then tried to crawl down the field and make
a tackle,” Rose recalled in his book on hitting.
“That’s dedication. Another night I saw him
coming off a field with a knot in his arm as big
as a softball. He took a handkerchief, put three
pieces of ice in it, tied it to his arm, went back
in and made an interception on the next play.
“Dedication was not something I read about.
I lived with it.”
Another relative helped Rose get his start in
the Cincinnati Reds’ system. His uncle, Buddy
Bloebaum, was a Reds scout who helped get
him a $7,000 contract out of high school.
It was a very modest beginning, but Rose
was thrilled.
“They were going to pay me $4OO a month to
has reserved a special place in the
heart of every fan alive today and
every baseball fan to come.”
It was Rose’s 95th hit of a season
highlighted from the beginning by a
day-by-day countdown of the biggest
record chase since Henry Aaron
passed Babe Ruth in career home
runs in 1974.
It was the 3,162nd single of Rose’s
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play basebell,” Rose said. “I thought I was
Jesse James I was stealing.”
He spent three years in the minors at
Geneva, N.Y., of the New York-Pennsylvania
League, Tampa of the Florida State League
and Macon, Ga., of the Sally League before
being installed as the Reds’ second baseman in
1963.
Rose won National League Rookie of the
Year honors by hitting .273, and five years later
won the first of his three league batting titles
with a .335 average.
Rose followed that with a league-leading .348
average in 1969, and won league Most Valuable
Player honors while winning the batting title
with a .338 average in 1973.
Along the way, he established his “Charlie
Hustle” reputation (the nickname was given by
the New York Yankees’ Whitey Ford during
Rose’s first spring training) by daily belly
slam slides and sprints to first base on walks.
Two incidents on national television added to
the growing legacy bowling over Cleveland
Indians catcher Ray Fosse to score the winning
run in the 1970 All-Star game at Riverfront
Stadium, and scrapping with the New York
Mets’ Bud Harrelson after a hard second-base
slide in the 1973 playoffs.
“I wish it hadn’t happened,” he said of the
collision with Fosse, whose career was
wrecked with a shoulder injury. “It ruined that
kid.”
At age 44, Rose still goes into base head-first
and throws his body into breaking up double
plays. It’s the only way he enjoys playing.
. “I just try to play hard every day,” Rose
said.
There have been plenty of milestones for
Rose World Series MVP honors in 1975, 17
All-Star Game and six World Series appear
ances and three titles, and a long list of major
league records including most games played,
at-bats, singles, and highest lifetime fielding
percentajge by an outfielder. He collected his
3,000 th hit and put together a modern-day
league record 44-game hitting streak in 1978,
before leaving the Reds as a free agent for
Philadelphia.
Ever the battler, Rose even complained
about how that hitting streak ended. He crit
icized Atlanta reliever Gene Garber for throw
ing him only offspeed pitches instead of
challenging him in the final at-bat of the streak,
which ended as Rose fanned.
“Garber was pitching like it was the seventh
game of the World Series," Rose said. “He had
a 16-4 lead.”
When he moved to Philadelphia, Rose also
moved to first base, his position ever since
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career. He also has 738 doubles, 133
triples and 160 home runs. Cobb had
3,052 singles, 724 doubles, 297 triples
and 118 home runs.
Rose’s return to Cincinnati, where
he got his first hit on April 14, 1963,
was the final stepping stone to his
assault on Cobb.
“If the Reds hadn’t needed a man
ager, he might not have gotten the
chance,” former teammate Johnny
Bench said. “Maybe it was fate or
destiny.”
If it was his destiny, at least Rose
has tried to keep it in perspective of
his dirt-to-diamonds career.
“When I get the record,” Rose said,
‘ ‘all it will make me is the player with
the most hits. I’m also the player with
the most at-bats and the most outs.
Pete Rose Is congratulated at first base by his son, Pete, after he collected his 4,192 base hit last
night In Cincinnati!. Rose added a triple In the fourth as the Reds went on to win 2-0,
except for short stints back at second with the
Phillies in 1979 and in the outfield with the
Montreal Expos in 1984.
Rose’s 1978 free agency was something of a
media event. He traveled to the cities of the
teams bidding for his services and held a news
conference in each.
“When I left Cincinnati and went to Philly,”
he said, “I went for half the money I could have
gotten other places, particularly in Atlanta for
Ted Turner. But money wasn’t what I wanted. I
wanted to go to the team with the best shot at
the World Series.
.. We go in to see Turner and we say that
we really are kind of embarrassed because we
don’t know exactly what to ask for or where to
start. And Turner says, ‘How about a million a
year for four years?’
“Well, I didn’t know whether to scratch my
watch or wind my butt. We leave and my agent
Thursday, Sept. 12, 1985
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... I’ve never said I was a greater
player than Cobb."
Indeed, Rose never expected to
supplant Cobb, who built his record in
2,339 fewer at-bats over 24 seasons
and compiled a .367 career average,
62 points higher than Rose’s.
Cobb, who died in 1961, ended his
career on Sept. 11, 1928, popping out
as a pinch-hitter for the Philadelphia
Athletics at Yankee Stadium.
“No other record in no other sport
has the impact of this,” said the
Padres’ Steve Garvey.
No one playing now is anywhere
near Rose. The closest active player
is Rod Carew of the California Angels
with 3,030 hits, 1,162 back and 13th on
the all-time list. And Carew is in the
twilight of his career. ,
Rose tied the record last Sunday in
Chicago, going 2-for-5 against the
Cubs for career hits No. 4,190 and
4,191. He returned home Monday
night, much to the relief of Reds
owner Marge Schott, thousands of
fans who wanted to take their part in
history and to Rose himself. They all
wanted the record-breaker to come in
Cincinnati.
But Rose did not play in the series
opener against Padres left-hander
Dave Dravecky. Tuesday night, Rose
started against Padres right-hander
LaMarr Hoyt but went hitless in four
at-bats. He hadn’t had a hit in his last
' six at-bats and, for the fifth time in
the past nine games, he had gone
hitless.
Cobb was the son of a teacher who
became a Georgia state senator, Wil
liam Herschel Cobb. Rose was the son
of a banker, Harry Rose.
Both men were heavily influenced
by their fathers. In each was instilled
a fierce competative spirit.
In Cobb, it festered. In Rose, it
matured.
Rose grew up watching his father
play semipro football. He remembers
his father once breaking a hip in a
game, then crawling downfield to
make a tackle. It was typical of
Rose’s dad.
“Dedication was not something I
read about,” Rose once said. “I lived
with it.”
And he turned it into a style of play
that made him unique. Although he
did not invent the head-first slide, he
made it a trademark, hurling his
body through the air only to skid to
the ground as he neared his destina
tion. Not only has he run out every
ground ball of his career, he still runs
fullspeed to first base on walks.
And while other players aged, he
kept going.
leans over to me and says, kind of quiet, ‘Pete,
this might not be so hard after all.’”
As it turned out, Rose signed with Philadel
phia. And in 1980, his play spurred the Phillies
to the first World Series championship in their
history
Rose takes particular pride in his consisten
cy over the years and playing in nearly 2,000
winning games.
“I’ve never approached baseball as a job.
It’s fun,” Rose said. “The only way to have fun
is to win.
“When I take the field I think I’m going to
win. I’m not one way or the other I think I’m
going to win. But I’m not a sore loser. You’re
going to lose some games in baseball, but you
don’t accept it.”
He also hasn’t accepted the popular wisdom
that 44-year-olds should take it easy and leave
sports to the younger set.