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Digital Extra: The Journal's 175th Anniversary |
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2006 EPpy Winner -- Best multimedia Providence, R.I., Overcast 34° |
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  07.21.2004 1979. A sure bet: Journal antes up for Rose Providence College dorm fire claims 10 lives Rolling Stones get no satisfaction in R.I. Watkins’ watch: Circulation, computers ’73 strike called over retroactive pay Blizzard of ’78 shuts down state, not Journal presses Nixon to Journal:‘I’m not a crook’ Journal first to report Nixon’s resignation A sure bet: Journal antes up for Pete Rose Baseball immortal Pete Rose played for The Providence Journal in the late 1970s. Kinda. Sorta. After the 1978 season, Rose quit the Cincinnati Reds, his team for 16 years, and became a free agent. On Dec. 5, 1978, baseball's all-time hits leader signed with the Philadelphia Phillies. According to a March 24, 1979, story in The Sporting News, part of the deal was that Philadelphia television station WPHL put up $600,000 toward the first year of Rose's $3.2-million four-year contract, on the theory their advertising revenues would rise with him on the team. That $600,000 -- three-quarters of Rose's 1979 salary -- was Providence Journal money. About six months before the Rose deal went through, The Providence Journal Company had bought WPHL. That means for three-quarters of 1979, Pete Rose was playing for The Providence Journal. Kinda. Sorta. |
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