Pete Rose "corked" bat

CajunlostinCali · Jun 8, 2010

As a kid I was a HUGE Pete Rose fan. I hated the Red's but Pete was a machine. To say I have been disgusted by how Pete handled his career is an understatement, my heart break continues.

This Is Pete Rose's Corked Bat

Before the season, Rose had a box of about 30 black Mizuno bats specially made for him. His trademark quick swing not nearly as quick as it used to be, Rose ordered his bats a little lighter than usual to shorten up his motion. The bats were 34 inches long, and weighed 31.6 ounces. In honor of his quest for 4,192 hits, they were dubbed the PR4192.

He used one of those bats — the bat you see in the X-ray — in the Philadelphia series. It was captured forever by a photographer's camera: Rose, waiting in the on-deck circle, bat resting on his left shoulder.
Pete Rose went 1-for-8 that weekend. He was 37 hits away from breaking the record.
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"There was no question he wanted the record," Taube says. "At that point in his career, he was going to do whatever he had to do." A game-used corked bat would add to the mountain of evidence that ballplayers only take the rulebook as a suggestion, especially when baseball's supposedly sacrosanct records are at stake.
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HatcherTiger · Jun 9, 2010

Pete ain't alone

SI.com - Baseball - Sosa ejected for using corked bat - Wednesday June 04, 2003 09:31 PM

LaSalleAve · Jun 9, 2010

Steroids, corked bats, vaseline, pine tar, emory board, snot, all the same thing, part of the game.

TheDude · Jun 9, 2010

I did not realize he broke the record on 9/11. I am even more creeped out now. That's like something from LOST.

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Pete Rose "corked" bat

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