Sherman Oaks Is Hit With Slugger

Pete Rose has purchased a Sherman Oaks home for about $1 million.

The former baseball great has been seeking reinstatement to baseball after being banned 10 years ago for gambling.

Rose, who had been renting a house for three years from game-show host Alex Trebek, bought a newly built, Mediterranean-style home with six bedrooms and an office in about 5,500 square feet, behind gates.

“We’re getting ready to put in a patio, deck and pool,” Rose said.

The house that he and his family had been renting is nearby. “We’ve always lived on this side of the hill, because my little girl needs to be near the studios,” he said.

His 10-year-old daughter, Chea Courtney, is an actress who has had recurring roles on the new NBC soap opera “Passions” as well as on the series “Ellen” and “Melrose Place.”

Rose, 58, and his wife, Carol, also have a son, Tyler, 15. “He’s a freshman and is on the basketball team,” Rose said. Asked if his son plays baseball, Rose said, “Sure he does. He’s a great baseball player.”

Rose’s 4,256 career hits are the highest total in major league history. He broke the record of 4,191 hits set by Ty Cobb, whose career ended in 1928. Rose ended his playing career after the 1986 season.

He played mostly for the Cincinnati Reds, which he was managing when accused of betting on baseball. Rose denied betting on games but until recently did not challenge the 1989 ruling.

After a wave of public support for him this fall during the All-Century Team day in Atlanta and at the introduction of legendary players before the second game of the World Series, Rose opened a Web site (https://www.sportcut.com) featuring a fan petition calling for his election to baseball’s Hall of Fame.

Rose also sent a letter in November to Commissioner Bug Selig seeking reinstatement to baseball. The sides are expected to meet in January to discuss Rose’s status.

“Only time will tell,” Rose said, “but we want to be optimistic.”

Gloria Hicks of Re/Max Centre, Encino, and Maurice Kozack of Fred Sands Estates, Encino, represented Rose in his purchase.

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Real estate mogul Fred Sands and his wife, Carla, have purchased a four-acre residential site in Bel-Air for more than $4 million from Ted Field, producer of such movies as “Runaway Bride” and “Teaching Mrs. Tingle,” Westside sources said.

Sands and his wife plan to break ground in about 90 days on a 14,000-square-foot Italian villa for themselves on two acres, and he intends to plant grapevines on the rest of the site. Architect Bill Hablinski is designing the house.

There had been a 13,000-square-foot house on the land. Field, also a record producer through his Interscope companies, had purchased the home for his ex-wife, Suzie, and their child. When they moved, Field put the property on the market. When it didn’t sell, he razed the house.

Sands is also building homes to sell on the last 12 lots at Mulholland Estates, a gated community that Sands’ firm has marketed since 1989. Five of Sands’ houses, designed by architect Richard Landry, are almost completed. The 8,000- to 9,000-square-foot houses will be priced from $3.5 million to $4.5 million.

Sands and his wife were represented in buying their building site by Joe Babajian of Fred Sands Estates, Beverly Hills, and Edith Kirshner of the firm’s Brentwood office.

Fields was represented in the sale by Stephen Shapiro of Westside Estate Agency, Beverly Hills.

Producer-agent Freddie Fields and his wife, Corinna, have purchased a Malibu beach house for about $2.5 million.

Fields produced such movies as “Glory” (1989), “American Gigolo” (1980) and “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” (1977).

As an agent, Fields, now in his mid-70s, has represented such Hollywood stars as Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand and Liza Minnelli. He sold his interest in Creative Management Associates in 1975. The agency later became ICM.

Corinna Fields, a Miss Universe in 1968, has been a chairman this year of the nonprofit organization SHARE, which benefits more than 35 L.A.-based children’s charities.

The couple, who live primarily in the Beverly Hills area, bought their Malibu retreat from Victor Resnick, a hedge fund manager and chief investment officer of Resnick Capital Management in Pacific Palisades.

Resnick, 50, moved to L.A. from New York in 1974 and started his company in 1991. The Malibu house was also his getaway.

Built in the 1950s, the 3,000-square-foot Cape Cod-style house was remodeled and has two bedrooms, a media room and ocean views.

Pam Bond of Hilton & Hyland, Beverly Hills, represented both sides of the transaction.

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The first desert home of Modernist architect Albert Frey, whose public building and home designs in Palm Springs helped to give the city a reputation for architectural experimentation, has been listed at $700,000.

The Swiss-born Frey, who worked in Paris with the great architect Le Corbusier, designed the Palm Springs City Hall and the tramway gas station as well as numerous futuristic homes, including his own.

He built his first desert home in 1940. He remodeled it many times, even after he sold it and moved in the ‘60s. The most recent remodel was completed, with his help, in 1998, the same year he died. He was 95.

The four-bedroom 4,600-square-foot house was an experiment in how to design a home to resist the harsh climate. Among its features: an aluminum-paneled second-floor circular bedroom with porthole windows and sheet-metal awnings to shield the living areas and pool deck from the sun. Frey also designed a suspended staircase, media room and circular driveway.

Don Keating at Tarbell Realtors in Palm Springs has the listing.

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