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MLB's all-time hits leader

By Mike Puma
Special to ESPN.com

Sunday, December 17, 2000

Signature Game Sept. 11, 1985 - At 44, Rose still played baseball with the joy of a boy. And there was plenty of joy in Cincinnati when he lined a single to left-center off San Diego's Eric Show in the first inning. The hit was Rose's 4,192nd, breaking Ty Cobb's 57-year-old major league record. His teammates mobbed the 23-year veteran and owner Marge Schott presented him with a red Corvette, driven in from behind the outfield fence. While the sellout crowd of 47,237 at Riverfront Stadium enthus ...

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