Charlie Hustle The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

"Long before the inquiry into Ohtani''s ties to betting, there was Pete Rose.... “Baseball biography at its best. With 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. 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....

Product details

• Authors: Keith O'Brien
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 11.03.2025
• Subject: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
• EAN: 9780593469392
• ISBN: 978-0-593-46939-2
• Pages: 480
• Dimensions (packing): 13.1 x 20.2 x 2.6 cm
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