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What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.

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Pete Rose
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 14
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Peter Edward Rose
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Charlie Hustle
Peter Edward Pete Rose Sr.
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I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.
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Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.
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