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Re: Jeter to miss all star game for "exhaustion"
« Reply #75 on: July 15, 2011, 07:42:34 AM »

Offline Eja117

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Also I'm not buying this whole "I could get hurt" stuff. Has anyone ever been hurt in any all-star game in any sport ever? I'm not aware of "Oh that guy was great that year till the all-star game injury".


Ray Fosse would like a word.




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Arguably, Ray Fosse is most famous for being bowled over by the Cincinnati Reds' Pete Rose at home plate in the last play of the 1970 All-Star Game. Rose scored the winning run, while the collision separated Fosse's right shoulder. The injury is often incorrectly cited as what caused the downfall of Fosse's career. In reality, Fosse played 42 games in the second half of 1970, hitting .297 and winning the American League Gold Glove Award. Rose asserted he was simply trying to win the game; however, he was widely criticized by some for over-aggressiveness in what essentially was an exhibition game. In a twist of fate, when Rose was sentenced to five months in prison for tax evasion, he was sent to the US penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, Fosse's hometown.


It's hard not to like Rose