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Preface: Thanks, Dad -- Big Pete -- Leland T. Joness leather strap -- Not the best baseball player -- Passed over -- Uncle Buddy -- Geneva (not Switzerland) -- Tampa -- Instructional league -- Macon -- Straight to the bigs -- Frank and Vada -- Rookie of the year -- Venezuela -- Hustling little Pete Rose -- Vietnam -- Batting title -- Morganna -- Collision -- He never walks when he can run -- Brawling at Shea -- Some kind of game -- Winning with the Phillies -- A big-league skipper -- Hit king -- I blew it, I know that -- Pete Jr. makes the big leagues -- Epilogue: Baseball has to make a few changes.;Pete Rose was a legend on the field. As baseballs Hit King, he shattered a number of hitting records that may never be broken. And during the 1970s, he was the leader of the Big Red Machine, the Cincinnati Reds teams that dominated the game. But hes also the greatest player who may never make the Hall of Fame because of his lifetime ban from the sport. Perhaps no other athletes story is so representative of the triumphs and tragedies of our national pastime. In Play Hungry, Rose tells us the story of how through hard work, hustle, and sheer will he became one of the unlikeliest stars of the game. Guided by the dad he idolized, a local sports hero with the spirit of a champion, Pete had an All-American boyhood. But even with the coaching of his father on how to compete and play baseball the right way, Pete was cut from his team as a teenager--he wasnt a natural. By the time scouts were coming to his high school games, he wasnt even considered the best player on the team. Rose was determined, though, and never would be satisfied with anything less than success. His relentless hustle and headfirst style would help him overcome his natural shortcomings, leading to a storied career including the Rookie of the Year Award, three batting titles, and the MVP Award. Play Hungry is Pete Roses love letter to the game, and an inside story of life on the diamond--

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Names: Rose, Pete, 1941 author.

Title: Play hungry : the making of a baseball player / Pete Rose.

Description: New York : Penguin Press, 2019. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018056333 (print) | LCCN 2019003052 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525558682 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525558675 (hardcover)

Subjects: LCSH: Rose, Pete, 1941 | Baseball playersUnited StatesBiography.

Classification: LCC GV865.R65 (ebook) | LCC GV865.R65 A3 2019 (print) | DDC 796.357092 [B] dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018056333

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Id like to dedicate this book to all my fans out there. They made it all possible for me, the way they treated me, and theyve stuck with me through thick and thin. Thank you.

CONTENTS
PREFACE
Thanks, Dad

My dad taught me that nothing mattered more than winning. He instilled that in me from when I was a scrawny little kid following him around from game to game watching him amaze everyone in Cincinnati as one of the greatest athletesand winnersany of them had ever seen. Dad was scientific in his study of sports and his commitment to learning and doing everything you could to become a better competitor. He had no time for talk like the old Grantland Rice line Its not whether you win or lose, its how you play the game. That was for losers. You might be hurt. You might be having a bad day. But you always looked for a way to gain an edge and you were always focused on winning.

Thats why no number means more to me than 1,972, which is the number of Major League Baseball games I played when my team won. That, by a long shot, is the most ever by any player. I loved everything about being an athlete, from practicing to getting ready for a game to playing the game, but most of all I loved competition and I loved winning. I love baseball now as much as I always did. Nothing that has happened to me could ever change that, including being banned from baseball for life. Or having to accept that I screwed up my shot at the Hall of Fameand if, despite everything, I do end up in the Hall one day, it will probably be after Ive joined my dad and my mom and moved on from this world.

Listen, there are two things Id change if I had my life to do over again. The first is I wouldnt have bet on baseball. Of course Id love to have that one back, but there are no do overs in life. You know the other thing Id change? I wish I could go back and grab the boy version of myself by the shoulders and give him a good shakehe wouldnt have minded that much, he was a tough kidand persuade him somehow to try to be a better student. I just didnt like school. I liked sports, and I was raised to focus on sports. The only interest I had in school was trying to stay eligible so I could keep playing sports.

Ill be gone soon enough. Out of the game we call life. Ill leave behind quite a few records. Ill leave behind a legacy of someone who worked as hard at the game as anyone out there, and someone who was as fierce a competitor as anyone who played the game. Anything I ever accomplished grew out of trying to live up to the example of my dad, who was the one man in my life I ever idolized.

I loved Babe Ruth. I loved Jim Brown. But I idolized my dad. I know I didnt always set the best example. Ive made my mistakes. But I was lucky in life, and I want to use this chance to show that I know how lucky I was. I was lucky because I had a dad who was there in my life to show me the way. This book is my way of thanking my dad, and reminding people that no relationships matter in life as much as the first ones you have, with your mother and father. Being there for people counts.

I heard my dads voice somewhere in the back of my head every time I laced up my spikes and went out there to do battle. That was true when I was a kid playing with the other kids at Boldface Park, and it was true long after my dad had died, way too young, and I was out there battlin Gibson or Marichal or Seaver. That was the ultimate secret to my success: I always played for my dad and for myself and for love of the game, which to me were all wrapped up together, those three. I played my ass off when I was a kid in Cincinnati and I played my ass off when I was an up-and-coming star at Crosley Field and I played my ass off when Id moved on to other teams in other cities. I was never trying to impress anyone. I was just trying to live up to that fiery love of the game and of competition that my father passed on to me when I was just a runt of a kid wishing I could be like him. I played hard because that was what made me feel alive. That was what made me feel like myself. I played hard, harder than anyone, because that was what made me feel close to my dad, even years after wed buried him.

PART 1
GROWING UP CHAPTER 1 Big Pete I grew up in Cincinnati Ohio close enough - photo 3
GROWING UP
CHAPTER 1
Big Pete

I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, close enough to the Ohio River that one time my mother stood out on the front porch of the family house and fished in the river. If you took a look now at the view of the river from that porch, looking out beyond a steep slope my friends and I used to sled down in wintertime, youd think I was pulling your leg, but my mom really did fish from that porch when she was a girl. I aint gonna tell you anything in this book but the truth. What would be the point of setting down my story, for people to read long after Im gone, if Im not gonna stick with the truth?

I dont know if my mother caught anything fishing from the river. I dont know if the family fried up some fresh catfish and ate it for dinner that night. I just know Mom fished from our porch during the Great Flood of 1937, the worst natural disaster in the history of Cincinnati. Almost a quarter of the city was underwater.

My mother was born in that house, where I was born and raised. It wasnt fancy, and it wasnt big, but it was just fine for our family, two levels, with an attic and a basement. My mom and dads bedroom was right up front, and I had a little bedroom in the back. I didnt have many chores. Sports were everything, and thats what my dad wanted me focused on. But back in those days, you heated your house with coal, so when wed get a delivery of coal, Id have to go outside next to the house and shovel that coal into the basement, even if it was snowing hard at the time. From there youd load it into the furnace to heat the house. Coal dust was everywhere, but it got the job done. We lived through some cold winters in that house.

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