Pete rose biography book
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Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball (Hardcover)
By Keith O&#;Brien
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A captivating chronicle of the incredible story of one of America’s most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures—baseball immortal Pete Rose—and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century • "Comprehensive, compulsively readable and wholly terrific."—The Wall Street Journal
"Long before the inquiry into Ohtani's ties to betting, there was Pete RoseCharlie Hustle chronicles one of the most polarizing figures in sports."—NPR, All Things Considered
“Baseball biography at its best. With Charlie Hustle, Pete Rose finally gets the book he deserves, and baseball fans get the book we’ve been craving, a hard-hitting, beautiful
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Charlie Hustle: the definitive Pete Rose book that deconstructs a disgraced legend
On the field, Pete Rose racked up hit after hit. Off the field, he racked up gambling debts. While persistence at the plate would reward him with baseball’s all-time hits record, his gambling resulted in a stiff punishment – a lifetime ban from Major League Baseball, and eventually from the Hall of Fame. A new book revisits this dramatic narrative – Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball, by veteran reporter Keith O’Brien.
“I feel like in the last 35 years since Pete Rose has been banned from baseball, and made mistake after mistake off the field, we forgot why we ever cared about him in the first place,” O’Brien says. “The first thing I wanted to do was go back to that whole story, the whole arc.”
Taking its title from Rose’s nickname, the book has an added resonance in the wake of the latest gambling scandal to hit the major leagues: Ippei Mizuhara,
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Keith O'Brien details the story of Pete Rose in jarring new book
Author Keith O’Brien's new book published by Penguins Random House this week -- “Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball” -- is an “unflinching account of one of the greatest players to ever round the bases, a player who is also an infamous and polarizing figure,” according to Keith Spera of the NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE. To tell the full story, O’Brien “drew on federal court and FBI documents and more than hours of interviews.” Spera noted “Charlie Hustle” is “not an authorized biography,” but through O’Brien’s Cincinnati connections, he was able to interview Rose. O’Brien said, “I wanted to tell the full story of his rise and fall, and I wanted to talk to Pete about it. I believed that if Pete truly reckoned with it, people would possibly have a better understanding of what happened.” O’Brien recorded 27 hours of interviews before Rose “abruptly cut off contact.” O’Brien: “We