Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball Keith O'Brien ebook#
Page: 480
Format: pdf / epub / kindle
ISBN: 9780593469392
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago that still stands today. He was a working-class white guy from Cincinnati who made it; less talented than tough, and rough around the edges. He was everything that America wanted and needed him to be, the American dream personified, until he wasn’t.In the 1980s, Pete Rose came to be at the center of one of the biggest scandals in baseball history. He kept secrets, ran with bookies, took on massive gambling debts, and he was magnificently, publicly cast out for betting on baseball and lying about it. The revelations that followed ruined him, changed life in Cincinnati, and forever altered the game.Charlie Hustle tells the full story of one of America’s most epic tragedies—the rise and fall of Pete Rose. Drawing on firsthand interviews with Rose himself and with his associates, as well as on investigators' reports, FBI and court records, archives, a mountain of press coverage, Keith O’Brien chronicles how Rose fell so far from being America’s “great white hope.” It is Pete Rose as we've never seen him before.This is no ordinary sport biography, but cultural history at its finest. What O’Brien shows is that while Pete Rose didn’t change, America and baseball did. This is the story of that change.Results for "O'Brien, Keith" | Vroman's Bookstore Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory . Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball. by O'Brien, Keith. Used; Hardcover. Condition: Used; Binding: Hardcover . Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory . Search for Books or Products · Home · Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball (Hardcover) . Keith O'Brien discusses Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete . Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball. He will be joined in conversation by MIKE RUTHERFORD. About the . Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory . A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY A captivating chronicle of the . Reviews - Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the . Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball by Keith O'Brien . baseball, and this book only made me love it more. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory . Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball (Hardcover) . With Charlie Hustle, Pete Rose finally gets the book he .