Question: What year is both a year that Pete Rose played and is the year prior to the 1973 Major League Baseball Season?
Answer(s):
answer: 1972 Major League Baseball Season

SPARQL query:
PREFIX ns: <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/>
SELECT DISTINCT ?x
WHERE {
FILTER (?x != ns:m.0dxg6)
FILTER (!isLiteral(?x) OR lang(?x) = '' OR langMatches(lang(?x), 'en'))
ns:m.0dxg6 ns:baseball.baseball_player.batting_stats ?y .
?y ns:baseball.batting_statistics.season ?x .
?x ns:time.event.next_in_series ns:m.02h7s1h . 
}