DAVIES: Pete Rose recorded in 2004. Here's a postscript to that conversation 20 years ago. It was one of the first interviews I did when I began filling in for FRESH AIR host Terry Gross. Rose and I were in different cities, connected by fiber-optic cable. While we were waiting to get started and he didn't realize his mic was open, I heard him say to his publicist, do you think it's bad that I have this guy instead of the girl? That was Pete, always focused on optimizing results. He died September ...
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