Posted on 09/10/2010 4:24:55 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
SAN DIEGO -- Back then, the news came in on Teletype, not over the Internet. Pete Rose had just slapped two hits at Wrigley Field, bringing his career total to 4,191, and somewhere up there, Ty Cobb was fidgeting … or having a gin and tonic. One more base hit and Rose would break Cobb's all-time hits record, a mark that had stood for nearly 60 years. Everyone in baseball wanted a bird's-eye view, but one team in particular was about to see it up close and maybe too personal: the woebegone 1985 San Diego Padres.
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I had to get back to it later, but what a great story. Sad, but great. Really explains why some people are little bit different than most.
He certainly had a fair amount of demons in his life.
Thank you for posting. I always liked Eric Show, and was sad when he passed away. Now I know more about what happened to him.
But then I remember Eric Show from back in the year and I often saw him photographed with his guitar. (You can find it through Google---he may have been the first if not the only baseball player ever to be shown with a guitar rather than a glove or bat on a baseball card.)
And I often could have sworn that he should have gone into music (at which he was very, very good) rather than baseball (at which he could have been great but for the torment it caused in his boyhood) because he never looked happier than when he had a guitar in his hands.
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