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Ray Fosse, the strong-armed catcher whose career was upended when he was bowled over by Pete Rose at the 1970 All-Star Game, has died. He was 74.

Rose asks for another meeting with Manfred.

Pete Rose met in New York yesterday with Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred, and baseball's all time Hit King was told that a decision on his reinstatement will be reached by the end of this year. The meeting lasted two hours and Rose was able to make his case about why he should be reinstated...

Pete Rose is now 73 years old and has been banned from baseball since August 1989. He applied for reinstatement in 1997, and met with commissioner Bud Selig as recently as November 2002 to discuss his return to the game he loves. Rose sat down with CBS Sunday Morning's Lee Cowan about being out of baseball for the last 25 years, and still believes he will eventually end up in Cooperstown... Read M

I normally find reality television to be vapid, mind-numbing, narcissistic pig slop. Suffice it to say, I tuned into Pete Rose's new TLC show with something less than an open mind. Five minutes in, I was hooked.

In case you missed yesterday's Sportstalk, Steve was having a great conversation with Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench until this happened.

In the 12th inning of last night's Giants-Marlins game, San Francisco star catcher Buster Posey seriously injured his left ankle in a collision with Florida's Scott Cousins. That play was not the first time a catcher trying to block home plate suffered a serious injury.