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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Baseball and boxing have very little in common.
A loss in one provides frustration that can be avenged with another game 24 hours later.
In the other, the pain persists far longer.
Still, the longer I sat and watched a preview of HBO’s 83-minute documentary “Assault in the Ring” – which premieres Saturday night at 10 – the more I thought of Pete Rose.
In vividly recalling the Luis Resto-Billy Collins Jr. bout, whose result led to Collins’ untimely death and Resto’s prolonged poverty, producer/director Eric Drath deftly weaves a tale in which the Puerto Rican slugger – similar to the Cincinnati hit king – is initially defiant, then tearfully contrite. [details]
A loss in one provides frustration that can be avenged with another game 24 hours later.
In the other, the pain persists far longer.
Still, the longer I sat and watched a preview of HBO’s 83-minute documentary “Assault in the Ring” – which premieres Saturday night at 10 – the more I thought of Pete Rose.
In vividly recalling the Luis Resto-Billy Collins Jr. bout, whose result led to Collins’ untimely death and Resto’s prolonged poverty, producer/director Eric Drath deftly weaves a tale in which the Puerto Rican slugger – similar to the Cincinnati hit king – is initially defiant, then tearfully contrite. [details]
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