Rose Helps Kick Off Pocono Downs Celebration

"If somebody's going to beat my record, first of all, he's going to have to be a good player. And second, if he's a really good player, how are you going to pay him for 21 years?," [Pete Rose] said. "That's if he gets 200 hits a year for 21 years, and he's sti...

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Published inThe tribune (Scranton, Pa. 1990)
Main Author Matt Bufano / Staff writer
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Scranton, Pa The Times-Tribune 23.08.2015
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Summary:"If somebody's going to beat my record, first of all, he's going to have to be a good player. And second, if he's a really good player, how are you going to pay him for 21 years?," [Pete Rose] said. "That's if he gets 200 hits a year for 21 years, and he's still 56 shy (of the record)." "... If you're a baseball player and you're a really good player, by the time you're 35 or 36 you've got a hundred million in the bank. Go live your life and have fun. They don't want to play baseball until they're 40, 42, 43. My last year I was 45." "It's just amazing," [Jack Carr] said. "I just wish my father was still alive to see Pete because he loved Pete."
ISSN:1062-5844