Matt Morici
Mrs. Tell
AmLit Period 7
February 21, 2017
Let Him In
Throughout the history of American sports, baseball has had many confrontations with cheating, scandals, and controversies. From the 1919 Black Sox scandal to steroid use, baseball has lived a life of cheating. Many of these scandals affected multiple players or teams but none have affected a single player more than the 1980’s Pete Rose betting scandal. Pete Edward Rose was born on April 14, 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio where he later signed with the Cincinnati Reds years later. Rose has been married two times and has four kids. Although some may believe Pete Rose should be despised for his actions, ultimately Pete Rose had contributed positively to the
American Dream because he …show more content…
“Rose credited him as the model for what would become his intense, hard charging style” (biography.com n.pag). Roses father played football and boxed which involves aggression and contact, Rose applied those attributes to baseball and thats what made him such a unique and revolutionary player. All of Petes close friends and family contributed to his baseball success in different ways. Pete Rose began his baseball career in the dusty baseball diamonds in Cincinnati with his friends and went on to join
Morici 2 a little league team. “Rose spent much of his childhood playing baseball with neighborhood friends and later joined a little league team” (biography.com n.pag). There is always a beginning to a great legacy and thats where it all started for Rose.
Pete Roses childhood circulated around baseball, he always had his superiors giving him motivation to perform at his absolute best. Harry Rose was always looking out for his son so he could be the best of the best. “Harry worried about his first-born sons eyesight. ‘He wanted me to be a hitter’, Pete says” (Los Angeles Times n.pag). This is referring to Pete going to the movies. His father wouldn't allow him to go to the movies because he wanted his eyesight to be 100% …show more content…
“His dad, Harry, had a lot to do with it too teaching the youngster the meaning of the word drive” (Los Angeles Times n.pag). The word drive defined
Roses baseball career, from hustling to first base after a walk to hustling to the dugout after the inning, Pete Rose would never stop trying to improve.
Pete Rose moved through the ranks as a baseball player and the result was possibly the greatest baseball career ever. Roses first two seasons in the MLB were rough but he eventually overcame his struggles and posted some of the best numbers of that time. “With a batting average of.273 and forty-one runs batted in, Rose was named National League (NL) Rookie of the Year. In his second season with the Reds, Rose's batting average slipped slightly to .269 and his RBIs totaled only thirty-four, but he barreled back in 1965 with a batting average of .312 and an impressive eighty-one RBIs. For the next eight seasons, through 1973, Rose posted batting averages of. 300 or higher every year and in 1969 hit a career-high eighty-two
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RBI” (biography.com n.pag). The significance of these numbers is how he rose above the struggles as a rookie and improved his play with his hard charging style. Through roses career
Mrs. Tell
AmLit Period 7
February 21, 2017
Let Him In
Throughout the history of American sports, baseball has had many confrontations with cheating, scandals, and controversies. From the 1919 Black Sox scandal to steroid use, baseball has lived a life of cheating. Many of these scandals affected multiple players or teams but none have affected a single player more than the 1980’s Pete Rose betting scandal. Pete Edward Rose was born on April 14, 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio where he later signed with the Cincinnati Reds years later. Rose has been married two times and has four kids. Although some may believe Pete Rose should be despised for his actions, ultimately Pete Rose had contributed positively to the
American Dream because he …show more content…
“Rose credited him as the model for what would become his intense, hard charging style” (biography.com n.pag). Roses father played football and boxed which involves aggression and contact, Rose applied those attributes to baseball and thats what made him such a unique and revolutionary player. All of Petes close friends and family contributed to his baseball success in different ways. Pete Rose began his baseball career in the dusty baseball diamonds in Cincinnati with his friends and went on to join
Morici 2 a little league team. “Rose spent much of his childhood playing baseball with neighborhood friends and later joined a little league team” (biography.com n.pag). There is always a beginning to a great legacy and thats where it all started for Rose.
Pete Roses childhood circulated around baseball, he always had his superiors giving him motivation to perform at his absolute best. Harry Rose was always looking out for his son so he could be the best of the best. “Harry worried about his first-born sons eyesight. ‘He wanted me to be a hitter’, Pete says” (Los Angeles Times n.pag). This is referring to Pete going to the movies. His father wouldn't allow him to go to the movies because he wanted his eyesight to be 100% …show more content…
“His dad, Harry, had a lot to do with it too teaching the youngster the meaning of the word drive” (Los Angeles Times n.pag). The word drive defined
Roses baseball career, from hustling to first base after a walk to hustling to the dugout after the inning, Pete Rose would never stop trying to improve.
Pete Rose moved through the ranks as a baseball player and the result was possibly the greatest baseball career ever. Roses first two seasons in the MLB were rough but he eventually overcame his struggles and posted some of the best numbers of that time. “With a batting average of.273 and forty-one runs batted in, Rose was named National League (NL) Rookie of the Year. In his second season with the Reds, Rose's batting average slipped slightly to .269 and his RBIs totaled only thirty-four, but he barreled back in 1965 with a batting average of .312 and an impressive eighty-one RBIs. For the next eight seasons, through 1973, Rose posted batting averages of. 300 or higher every year and in 1969 hit a career-high eighty-two
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RBI” (biography.com n.pag). The significance of these numbers is how he rose above the struggles as a rookie and improved his play with his hard charging style. Through roses career