Others also have been well ahead of Rose at this age, according to Baseball-Reference.com.
"I definitely feel I've hit the jackpot getting this job at this age, " Docherty says.
The carnage we see to talented kids at this age who reach the spotlight is dismaying.
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Even at this age, he still has a tremendous sense of what's happening in a horse race.
"To have a bird still breeding at this age is remarkable, " she said.
Watching more than three hours' TV a day at this age predicted a very small increase in "conduct" problems at the age of seven.
If I go there, I'll never be able to progress the way I'd like because I'll always be a foreigner, especially at this age.
And I think at this age, I've seen a lot of the world, I've met different people, and I'm ready to compromise.
"I thought at this age I would be scaling back my 60-hour workweeks and beginning to develop some of my outside interests, " he says.
"I worked 25 years without having my own house and at this age, thank God, I'm able to own my own home, " Garzon said.
But, really, at this age, it's all about the test prep.
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The 12-year-olds, however, generally did as well as their mothers on social understanding tasks, indicating that children at this age can be as "socially sophisticated" as adults, the authors said.
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Plus, many TV shows and even books aimed at this age group often portray adults as clueless fools -- as any parent who's been on the receiving end of "Duh!"
Hazel Danson from the NUT, who teaches five and six-year-olds, says those who are reading quite well at this age might misread the made-up words, for example by mistaking "osk" for "ask".
The minority of countries that recruit at this age argue that, if they left it any later, the young people would turn to other employment: more than half of military personnel in Britain joined before their 18th birthdays.
The minister said the majority of people who had responded to the proposal were in favour of raising the age of criminal responsibility, and that the majority of cases at this age were already dealt with "largely through care" rather than the courts.
The forum highlights the section in the draft which says that six- and seven-year-olds should be taught about the process of reproduction and growth in animals but which also says that at this age pupils "should not be expected to understand how reproduction occurs".
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This does not mean that every child must be schooled, drilled and disciplined to make them model citizens at this young age.
Many abandon sciences, maths, languages, even English at this tender age.
However, The Edmund Rice Schools Trust said it welcomed the statement of the Northern Catholic Bishops "setting out clearly their collective stance in relation to the ending of academic selection at this early age".
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Their babies were measured and weighed at birth and this was repeated at the age of three.
Dying was not something he had in mind at this early an age.
The star, whose hits include I'm Outta Love, also suffers from the bowel condition Crohn's disease and had an operation for this at the age of 13 for the illness.
That may or may not prove that drinking high quality single malt Scotch whisky is good for you, but it did earn her recognition in the form of the 55 Year Old Glenfiddich Janet Sheed Roberts Reserve, named in her honor to celebrate her birthday at this ripe old age.
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At age 12 this Nova Scotia native got bored with school and enrolled at Dalhousie University.
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