This Personal Cosmic Game pits the Rosebuds, a team consisting of former friends and associates of Pete Rose against the 1963 Cinicinnati Reds. Rose won the National League Rookie of the Year Award that season. Twenty-six years later Rose was banished from baseball for allegedly gambling on baseball games. Many of the Rosebud players were implicated in the disgrace of Pete Rose.

Because he has been put on Baseball's ineligible list, alongside Shoeless Joe Jackson, Rose cannot be elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame.

For more information about Pete Rose and his problems, visit the Cosmic Baseball Association's Special Plate on The Pete Rose Hall of Fame Controversey.

Lineup Cards

	Rosebuds	Pos	Info
1	Don Stenger	LF	Friend of Pete rose; convicted felon
2	Steve Chevashore	1B	Gambling associate of Pete Rose
3	Danita Marcum	3B	Paul Janszen's girlfriend
4	Ron Peters	CF	Gambling associate of Pete Rose
5	Reuven Katz	RF	Pete Rose's lawyer
6	Tommy Gioiosa	SS	Friend of Pete Rose; convicted felon
7	Mike Bertolini	2B	Business associate of Pete Rose
8	Michael Fry	C	Friend of Pete Rose; convicted felon
9	Paul Janszen	P	Friend of Pete Rose; convicted felon

1963 Reds	Pos	Info
1	Gordy Coleman	1B	1963 Batting Avg.- .247
2	Pete Rose	2B	1963 Rookie of the Year; batting avg- .273
3	Tommy Harper	LF	1963 Batting Avg.-.260
4	Frank Robinson	CF	1963 Batting Avg.- .313
5	Johnny Edwards	C	1963 Batting Avg.- .259
6	Bob Skinner	RF	1963 Batting Avg.- .253
7	Gene Freese	3B	1963 Batting Avg.- .244
8	Leo Cardenas	SS	1963 Batting Avg.- .235
9	Jim Maloney	P	1963 Won-Loss Record- 23-7; Earned Run Avg. -2.77

Linescore

Inning	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs	Hits	Errors
Rosebuds	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	3	0	7	11	1
1963 Reds	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	11	3

Scoresheet

Rosebuds-7 at 1963 Reds-2

KEY DP-Double Play; E-Error; FO-Fly Out; GO-Ground Out; HR-Homerun K-Strikeout; LO-Lineout; T-Triple; W-Walk; - Single; = Double

Boxscores

Rosebuds at 1963 Reds

KEY AB-At Bats; H-Hits; HR-Homeruns RBI-Runs Batted In; B AVE-Batting Average

Pitching Details

KEY W-Won; L-Lost; IP-Innings Pitched; H-Hits R-Runs ER-Earned Runs; W-Walks; K-Strikeouts

Game Notes

Homeruns	Bertolini,Chevashore Cardenas
Triples	Harper
Doubles	Fry, Katz Harper, Maloney

Errors	Rosebuds-1 (Gioiosa) '63 Reds-3 (Rose-3)
Doubleplays	Rosebuds-3
Left-on-Base	Rosebuds-11 '63 Reds-9

Stolen Bases	none
Caught Stealing	none

Umpires	Giammati, Vincent, Dowd
Game Time	3 hours, 31 minutes
Attendance	35,001

MCP

Most Cosmic Player (MCP)

Steve Chevashore

Comments

Pete Rose's former friends and associates beat up on him and his team pretty well. Rose himself must have felt jittery around so many of the people he felt betrayed him. He committed an unbelievable three fielding errors. Even so, ever the hitmeister, Rose had two singles in four at bats.

The Rosebuds simply pounded Reds starter Jim Maloney. And Rose's chief nemesis, Paul Janszen, the man who testified that Rose did indeed bet on baseball games, controlled the Reds to just two runs despite yielding 11 hits.

The Rosebuds displayed very competent fielding, turning three doubleplays during the game. Steve Chevashore, one of Rose's bookmakers, gets the game's Most Cosmic Player award for his three-for-four performance at the plate that included a homerun, two singles and four runs batted in.

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