For young ball players today who don't know who Pete Rose was and what he was about when it came to playing baseball let me explain it to you this way, Pete Rose was the living embodiment of a "Hard 90". However he didn't expect his coach and the world to praise him for his Hard 90. He embodied that Hard 90 because it was what he and his teammates expected from him and everyone else on the team. In an era when hard, tough men played the game with determination, grit and guts, Pete Rose did that to the nth degree. In his day every player played with toughness and gave everything they had every single day, Pete Rose played tougher and harder and with more determination that all of them. He earned his way to stardom. He didn't show up to the big leagues with a shoe deal and an entourage. And that's saying something because he played at a time when if player didn't try to break up a double play, that player's own teammates would take them to task and maybe even swing a punch at them. Whatever he did off the field, what he did on the field speaks for itself. I take solace in the fact that Pete "Charlie Hustle" Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson are standing by the batting cage getting Pete ready for his first game in the Real Big Leagues.
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