WELCOME, PETE: MLB Commissioner BUD SELIG said that
PETE ROSE will be invited to the World Series if he is
elected to the MLB All-Century Team (AP, 8/24). ABC's Aaron
Brown examined Rose's lifetime ban from baseball on last
night's "World News Tonight." Brown: "If anything, [Rose]
thumbs his nose at the game. There is the Pete Rose Museum
just down the block from baseball's Hall of Fame in
Cooperstown, and he shows up on Hall of Fame Weekend to sell
his autograph." Peter Gammons: "If Pete says he's sorry,
shows remorse, and does admit that he had problems, and does
admit that he did bet on baseball games, I think the wind
will blow so strongly that [MLB Commissioner Bud Selig] will
go along with it" ("World News Tonight," ABC, 8/23).
MORE NAMES: Attorney J. REX FARRIOR, who helped bring
the Devil Rays to Tampa Bay, died of a heart attack Sunday.
He was 72 (ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, 8/24)....Actor ANTHONY
EDWARDS was grand marshal at CART's Target Grand Prix in
Chicago on Sunday and took three laps around the track with
MARIO ANDRETTI (USA TODAY, 8/24)....Mariners CF KEN GRIFFEY
JR attended a Friday ceremony at the Nike campus to mark the
opening of a $20M building named for him (SEATTLE TIMES,
8/21)....Former Dolphins coach DON SHULA will open a
steakhouse inside the Walt Disney World Dolphin hotel
(ORLANDO SENTINEL, 8/24)....Wizards rookie G RICHARD
HAMILTON signed with agent BILL STRICKLAND. Hamilton
recently "fired" former agent AL IRBY (BOSTON GLOBE, 8/24).
