Last week I traced my journalism misadventures in part to an interview for high school TV with the classical music great Leonard Bernstein 45 years ago. Here’s the other part: An encounter about a year after that with baseball legend Pete Rose. Bernstein was a huge celebrity for the cognoscenti; Rose was a hero to ordinary baseball fans, like me.
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