Then you have The Open at Royal Troon, where Rose emerged as the lone contender to come out of the wrong side of the weather ... “If you know that in your head, that gives you the motivation ...

But before the game, Reds manager Terry Francona shared a story he thought shared a side of Rose that people don't ... because baseball kind of put their head in the sand back 30 years ago ...

And that was Pete’s thing.” The rest is history – the image of Rose sliding head first immortalized in bronze to this day on the Great American Ball Park plaza. This story is part of an ...