Brandon Harris on why the culture that protected Rose from the fallout of his excesses did not extend the same favor to the team’s most talented Black players.
Charlie Hustle, as the disgraced former baseball player, manager, and broadcaster Peter Edward Rose is known in my home town, is a legend whose great triumphs and shameful mistakes personally buoy or affront generations of Cincinnati ans. Rose, a product of the city’s hardscrabble west side, was a man of average physical gifts who propelled himself to unparalleled athletic heights and a mythic status hard to imagine for a baseball player today.
As Rose pointed out, Parker certainly wasn’t getting calls to sell pizza—neither was the face of the Reds’ brightest star of the eighties, the electrifying outfielder and folk hero Eric Davis. Parker’s and Davis’s stories are part of the received lore of many millennial Cincinnati boyhoods. On the Little League fields of Cincinnati, Davis, in particular, held the status of a Greek god.
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