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Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Pete Rose to be Honored By Reds
Pete Rose the rookie Redleg Swung a very lively bat He was proud of that white C Stitched onto his baseball hat All of the other Redlegs Used to laugh and call him names Charlie Hustle They didn't want young Pete Rose To take over from Blasingame Then one sunny Tampa Day Hutch came round to say Pete Rose with your hustling play You will start on Opening Day And how the Reds fans loved him As he hustled every game Pete Rose the rookie Redleg You'll go to the Hall of Fame Emotional Cincinnati Reds hall of famer Pete Rose tips his cap to the fans as he is introduced during a pregame ceremony for the unveiling of Pete Rose's bronze statue being installed outside the stadium before the MLB National League game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Great American Ball Park in downtown Cincinnati on Saturday, June 17, 2017.© Sam Greene/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The rhyme, which roughly fits the tune of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, was published in a program by Cincinnati Reds' PR director Hank Zureick in a program for a meeting of veteran baseball players in 1964. Advertisement A 10-year-old son of one of Zureick's many friends just made up the rhyme while playing one day and wrote it down. His father, a bartender where Zureick often ate lunch, showed it to the PR man, who liked it enough to put it in the program. It was long forgotten with the ironic prophecy in the last line. Pete Rose, the controversial yet prolific baseball icon, passed away on September 30, 2024, at the age of 83. His accomplishments and controversies are well chronicled and can be found anywhere. This is about a young fan's perspective on the Shakespearean Tragedy of Rose's life. A young man from Sedamsville, who was once cut from his high school team, became the 'Hit King' in a story that rivals that of Shoeless Joe from Hannibal Mo in the broadway play Damn Yankees. The character, a baseball fan who hated the New York Yankees, made a deal with the Devil to become a baseball star and defeat the Yankees. Advertisement Rose did that in 1976. The journey to that is filled with luck, hard work, and pure drama that ended when his heart stopped on Monday morning in Las Vegas. His uncle recommended Rose, who really was not strong on pure talent. The Reds took a chance to fill their minor league roster and ended up striking gold. The drive and ultra-competitive nature that allowed him to eclipse baseball legend Ty Cobb and participate in three World Series championships was also his fatal flaw. The 10-year-old who penned the poem can remember where he was at key moments in the Rose saga. He was in the stands with his family when Rose collided with Ray Fosse at home plate in the 1970 All-Star Game. Advertisement He was watching on a 12' black and white TV in his college dorm when Rose and Bud Harrelson scuffled at second base in Shea Stadium because Rose's slide was thought to be too aggressive by Harrelson. He and a friend from college were on their way home after the 1974 tornadoes ravaged the area the night before the Opening Day game against the Atlanta Braves. The pair of students managed to elude security at the service entrance and emerge with a box seat level view of the field when Hank Aaron hit his 714th career home run, which tied Babe Ruth. They stayed around until the 11th inning when Rose scored the winning run from second base on a wild pitch by Buzz Capra. 'FROM SECOND BASE'. He watched Game 6 of the 1975 World Series in bits and pieces while delivering pizza in the college town. Every stop had the game on, where he would watch an out or two, then get back to work. Advertisement Carlton Fisk's home run broke his heart, but Rose famously told his manager, Sparky Anderson, 'Wasn't that the greatest baseball game you've ever seen. We will win tomorrow, but that was the greatest game.' It was that competitive spirit that let him file a disheartening loss and keep his edge. The kid watched the next night with friends. Rose's head-first dive into third base on Joe Morgan's hit in the top of the ninth as Ken Griffey Sr. scored the winning run is a staple highlight of the game. Rose drove in the tying run off Roger Moret in the seventh inning. The series clinching game in the 1976 World Series at Yankee Stadium was viewed in a group setting in the main lounge of the University student center. At least a hundred students gathered to watch it. Advertisement There was the night that Rose's 44-game hitting streak came to an end as the long-time fan watched in his Toledo apartment. The kid got a job and lived in Queens, New York, where cable TV was three years away on the night that Rose got the hit that made him the 'Hit King' off Eric Show on September 11, 1985. As fate would have it, the conditions were right to pick up the WLW broadcast in Queens that night from an apartment with a view of Shea Stadium. The next day, he went to the newsstand and bought every New York paper. It was front-page news above the fold in the snooty New York Times. As a side note, the lineup that night had four players who grew up in Cincinnati: Dave Parker, Buddy Bell, and Ron Oester, joined by Rose. He watched the game in his apartment on April 30, 1988, when Rose argued and bumped home plate umpire Dave Pallone. Advertisement The kid was in Manhattan, 10 blocks from the offices of Major League Baseball, when commissioner Bart Giamatti suspended Rose for life. And finally, the full circle, the 10-year-old was in the press box to witness Pete Rose Jr.'s 14 big league at-bats. He had two singles to give the father-son combination 4,258 hits. It seemed like all week, the adult 'boy' had to defend his hero in front of Mets' and Yankees' fans that remembered the Harrelson scuffle and the quote battle between Rose and Thurman Munson from the '76 World Series. When Munson was compared to Rose's teammate, Johnny Bench. Rose backed manager Sparky Anderson, who said, 'Don't try to compare him to Johnny Bench.' Rose praised Munson for his great 1976 World Series but took the side of his manager and teammate for the statement that hurt the Yankees' catcher's feelings. Advertisement The former 10-year-old refused to believe the 'Dowd Report' that concluded Rose bet on baseball. His faith was shattered two decades later when Rose finally admitted that he bet on baseball, albeit on his own team. It was baseball's golden rule that he indeed violated. The fatal flaw that compelled a competitor, idle in the off season, to compete by gambling and gambling to a fault. There is the contradiction that made him infamous as a person, but it never erased his on-field accomplishments. In 1991, baseball's Hall of Fame passed a rule post facto that a player suspended from the game could not be elected to the Hall of Fame. The edict is profoundly disingenuous with Rose memorabilia, videos, and records dominating baseball's shrine. The man who hoped to be alive and be inducted lost that battle on Monday. It is ironic that such a winner lost the fight. Yet there is hypocrisy on the part of Major League Baseball that can't be overlooked as the aged 10-year-old looks back. Major League Baseball now promotes gambling on its sport. Once, it was said that it was a slippery slope to let the game be in any way associated with gambling. Advertisement However, with gambling money and a drastic change in morality. Major League Baseball runs ads during games for gambling sites, FanDuel, and MGM Sports Betting. They plunged down that slippery slope like the kids' water slide in the backyard. Rose didn't see the day that he had a plaque with his name on it in Cooperstown, but that injustice can and should be corrected for the sake of Pete Rose Jr and daughter Fawn. And oh yes, the 10-year-old who stands by his hope and wish that his flawed, yet human, hero is honored for eternity. Related: Remembering the great Pete Rose
Buzz Feed
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
21 Not-Talked-About Movies That Basically Scarred An Entire Generation
Recently, we wrote about the films that have absolutely scarred an entire generation. And, in response, we got SO MANY MORE good suggestions from our BuzzFeed Community. Here are the less-talked-about movies that emotionally traumatized people when they were younger: 1. The Little Engine That Could (1991): "That. Mountain. Scene." 2. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964): "I didn't realize how traumatic those Christmas claymation movies were until I showed them to my then 3-year-old, who literally ran from the room screaming. The abominable snowmen and the island of misfit toys are nightmare fuel." 3. My Dog Skip (2000): "I love dogs so much, and I was told by everyone I knew that I needed to watch that movie. NO ONE TOLD ME WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. It's scarred me to this day." 4. Horton Hears a Who (1970): "The Wickersham Brothers gave me nightmares, big time." 5. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998): "That movie traumatized so many kids who either saw it when it came out or on TV later." 6. Lord of the Flies (1990): "I stumbled across that movie when I was really young, before I had any idea it was a classic, and it scared the bejeebers out of me." 7. The Sound of Music (1965): "The Nazis in The Sound of Music...I had to sleep with all the lights on." 8. Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (1977): "I cry every time." 9. Benji (1974): "How has no one mentioned this yet? It's terrifying at times." 10. Charlotte's Web (1973): "My 4-year-old and I both cried at the end of Charlotte's Web. I asked her what was wrong, and she said, 'She didn't get to see her babies.' I'm crying now." 11. Clue (1985): "It was probably irrational of me, but the movie gave me nightmares for a week. I was maybe 7 or 8 when I watched it; I would cry whenever I went to the bathroom because I was afraid someone would come out of a secret passage/hidden panel and stab me. I didn't feel safe in my own home!" 12. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937): "I was 5 and the mirror scared me so much." 13. Gorillas in the Mist (1988): "I saw it as a child, and I still can't watch any movie about animals 40 years later." 14. Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983): "It scared me to death. It made me scared of carnivals for a while. I'm 53 and will not watch it to this day." 15. Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977): "My parents recorded it off the TV, and I damn near wore the VHS tape out watching it even though it scared the absolute shit out of me." 16. Superman III (1983): "The scene where the woman gets turned into a borg scared the crap out of me as a kid." 17. Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959): "When the banchees came to the front door towards the end, I had nightmares for years." 18. Once Upon A Forest (1993): "😭😭😭." 19. The Transformers: The Movie (1986): "I was a NASA and Transformers kid. In 1986, the Challenger exploded, and they killed Optimus Prime — that year warped me for life! Paramount Pictures / Ronald Grant Archive / Mary Evans — laughingasteroid20 20. A Troll in Central Park (1994): "It was the most terrifying movie to me as a kid, and I still can't watch it." 21. Mary Poppins (1964): "Don't laugh, but, specifically the scene where they were all up by the ceiling. As a wee tot, my cousins would torture me by playing 'I Love to Laugh,' knowing it would send me into hysterics. Even now, I still get the ghost of a shiver listening to that song."
