No way to treat a guest

Tonight marks the 53rd anniversary of Cincinnati’s Pete Rose plowing into Cleveland catcher Ray Fosse in the 12th inning to score the winning run for the National League in the All-Star Game at Cincinnati.

Fosse, a dinner guest at Rose’s house the night before the 1970 game, is taken to the hospital, where he initially is diagnosed with a badly bruised left shoulder.

The game, which the National League wins 5-4 before a crowd of 51,838 at newly opened Riverfront Stadium, is scoreless until the sixth inning.

Rose, the hometown favorite, does not enter the game until the fifth inning, when he replaces Hank Aaron in right field.

Rose walks and strikes out twice before starting the winning rally in the 12th inning with a two-out single to center off California’s Clyde Wright.

Rose then moves to second on a single to left by Los Angeles’ Billy Grabarkewitz before scoring the winning run on another single to center by Jim Hickman of the Chicago Cubs.

As for Fosse, he proves to be a remarkably quick healer as he returns to Cleveland’s lineup two days later and continues to play like an All-Star with 11 hits in his next 31 at-bats.

Turns out, though, that Fosse is playing not with a badly bruised left shoulder, but one that has been fractured and dislocated from his collision with Rose.