LJ Idol (2025 Wheel of Chaos) Week 1 prompt: QUALITY

 (EEK. and even shorter time to get this hammered out than I wa thinking... About 90 minutes...)
So, most of us prefer QUALITY of QUANTITY when we can only have one...

With my last name being Rose, I used to get asked fairly regularly if I was related to Pete Rose. 

I had always said, "Not that I know of." because I really didn't know or care.
I've never been a big baseball fan. I will sometimes go to a St Louis Cardinals game with work. But I can very much take or leave the game, and don't watch it on TV...

Banana Ball on the other hand (an offshoot of Baseball) is quite fun! I would love to go see it in person, and while I have not watched a full game yet, I have watched significant portions of several games.. It has been described as "Harlem Globetrotters, in baseball form, but not scripted." There are several rule differences between the two games. One of the biggest is, the players HAVE FUN!
There are currently 4 teams in the league, expanding to 6 next year.

But back to Pete Rose (Peter Edward Rose Sr 1941-2024), it turns out I am related to him, distantly. Using the WikiTree information, we are 19C1R (19th cousins once removed.) One of my sets of 19th Great-Grandparents, are his 18th GGPs.) They lived in the late 1300s, and I have no idea without examining the research how high quality that information is.
One of the fun things about WikiTree, is that they also provide a Connection Finder. It looks at the siblings and spouses of the various relations that have been entered.
I am 22° away from Pete Rose.
And I am not connected to him through my Dad's side. but through my Mom's family. Not counting Pete Rose and myself, the only other 2 with Surname of Rose are his father and grandfather.)
The connection between us is 2 brothers who lived in the 1600s.  William and John Thorne. 

I very much enjoy WikiTree! It is a true community with various modes and means of interaction.

When it started, (before I joined) you were able to upload a GEDCOM file to WikiTree. The translation of the GEDCOM files to the WikiTree format was not good. And some of the people who uploaded their GEDCOMs don' seem to have stuck around to stay in the community.

They dropped off their family, and ran...


(sort of a Dad Joke, a low quality one.)