[USML Announce] Hits and Mrs.: I Watched It Since You Don't Have To

[rickgam at comcast.net]

Greetings; 

    I'm going to be in Vegas during the Super Blow and will make it a point to look up Pete at his little shop at 

the Caesar's Forum.  Re my first MLB game - I went to many an Indianapolis Indian game to watch the likes of 

Jim Hicks, Bill Voss, Kurt Bevacqua, Pedro Borbon, Tom Hume, et. al.  True story about Pat Zachry, who if 

memory serves had an outstanding rookie year with maybe the best team of my lifetime (Big Red Machine of 

'76).  The Indians at that point were the Reds' farm team and in '75 he stole my best friend's big brother's 

girlfriend, who I also knew.  She worked at that great Indy culinary landmark, Steak n' Shake.  I believe the 

kids today call it mackin' , but Mr. Zachry noticed her and after home games would come sniffing around and 

worked her until she could no longer resist the charms of a burgeoning major league talent.  I have no idea 

how long the relationship lasted, but I do remember my best friend's family was very pissed and went to at 

least one Indian game specifically to catcall/ scream at Mr. Zachry. 

    As to my first major league game, you might find this hard to believe, but I waited until just last year to attend 

my first game in person.  I went with Manti Te' o.  I'll never forget, in the 1st inning Babe Ruth hit a towering line 

drive, which Ted Williams leapt up 20 feet in the air to snatch.  Lefty Grove was firing pills that day, but Mickey 

Mantle got hold of one and I think it was measured at 680 feet.  But the real highlight was Cool Papa Bell bunting 

and racing around the bases and reaching home plate before Mark Belanger even touched the ball ........ oh,  

wait, that was a different game . 

    Rick   



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From: "Doug Shabelman" <Doug.Shabelman at burnsent.com> 
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Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:28:27 AM 
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I have two great Pete stories—the one I will mention here is that in ’82 or ’83 Pete was in Chicago for a series vs the Flubs and knew the founder of my company (David Burns) pretty well from a few commercials they had done together.  David lived in Marina Towers and at 2 am, the doorman in the building calls up to his condo and said there is a very strange guy named Pete down in the lobby, can he send him up? David gets on the phone, Pete says I need to see you, can I come up? 

David lets him up, opens his door and Pete is there with a  wad of cash in his hand asking if he can buy some weed from David as these girls he’s with want to have a smoke or two. If he doesn’t have any, can he point him in the right direction….needless to say, he was sent on his way but with a phone number in his pocket….. 

  

Ahh…the good old days. 

  


From: announce-bounces at usml.net [mailto:announce-bounces at usml.net] On Behalf Of Brad Jansen 
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 10:23 AM 
To: USML Announcements 
Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Hits and Mrs.: I Watched It Since You Don't Have To 

  

I actually did obtain a signed ball many years ago. I think he signed it Hit King, and I know he wrote the number of his hits.  


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Jim Barrett < chicagojab at gmail.com > wrote: 

I haven't seen the show but once saw Pete Rose signing autographs for money outside a sports memorabilia shop in a Vegas mall. I was not one of the very few that were standing in line. 

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On Jan 15, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Brad Jansen < bljansen at gmail.com > wrote: 

> So this is what happens when there's nothing happening on the mlb network (is that still on the air ?): Still recovering from the happenings on Downton Abbey, last night I stumbled upon  the debut of Hits and Mrs., Pete Rose's "real life" show.  The female lead is not really his Mrs., and I doubt she ever will be. She has two kids, a girl and a boy; the latter prefers video games to playing baseball (or doing anything else for that matter) with the Hit King. I don't know if Pete even has his own place anymore. All domestic scenes are shot at the fiance's CA home I might add she's several years younger than Pete and is quite well-endowed. They said she was a "businesswoman," so I did some research this morning and, yup, as I figured, that means she's an ex-Playboy model. What she sees in Pete remains to be seen, unless she really does dig chunky balding guys who wear track suits and offer pearls of wisdom such as "guys think with their [word deleted on air]"--heck, in that c 
 ase, I gotta chance with this babe! Anyway, it's always fun to watch the humble pie Pete wear caps and tee-shirts touting himself. At a "baseball camp" taught on some rundown baseball field, Pete teaches kids to not cry and throw like girls--and all of them wearing Rose-14 tee shirts. Super cute. My son said even with the fiance's implants Pete's breasts were still bigger. It's a great family show and I encourage those of you with children to watch this baseball legend in his quest to find happiness. I'd hurry, though, because I doubt this show will last to Spring Training. 
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