Pete Rose had a brilliant baseball career, until he was banned for life for gambling on the game. But decades before Rose became a cautionary tale, he was a military man. (OnlyAGameNPR)
These days, Pete Rose is known as much for his lifetime ban from baseball, imposed in 1989, as for his brilliant 24-year playing career. Rose initially denied allegations that he gambled on baseball games while he was manager of the Cincinnati Reds. But in 2004, he publicly admitted to it.
While Rose peeled potatoes and tallied hits that would someday total a Major League-best 4,256, he kept a close eye on what was happening thousands of miles away. DiMaggio had retired 12 years before Rose made the big leagues. But Rose was obsessed with the Yankees’ run of World Series wins and Joe’s 56-game hitting streak. The guy from the State Department said he could talk baseball with Joe. But …
U.S. Army helicopters bomb Viet Cong positions near the Cambodian border about 80 miles north of Saigon, Dec. 6, 1967. "You know, we spent a week and a half down in the jungle of Vietnam," Rose says."You know, in tents, sleeping bags. Gunships, with every fourth bullet a tracer out of the helicopters. You can't sleep because of the mortars going off. And you realize there is a war going on there. And it's a mile from where you are.""We were GS … uh … GS 14s, I think. We were colonels.
"And I remember we were walking down the street, and there were, like, six North Vietnamese soldiers that were killed in the battle. And they were wrapped in bamboo," Rose says."They were laying right in the middle of the street. Their feet were hanging out. Their heads weren't hanging out, but their feet were. And I went up to where they were, and I touched a touch one of them with my foot. And the guy who was with us said, 'Don't do that, Pete.
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