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Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
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94
/100
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Readers
95/100Critics
93/100Scholars
Author:
Keith O'Brien
Publisher:
Pantheon
Date:
March 26, 2024
The story of one of America's most charismatic and polarizing figures â baseball immortal Pete Rose â and a cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century.
What The Reviewers Say
O’Brien has crafted a sort of American tragedy about an undersized athlete raised to win at all costs.
I’m not sure there’s ever been a book that does a better job of sketching out that man than Keith O’Brien’s.
Outside of a true devotion to the craft of hitting, there is arguably nothing admirable about the adult Pete Rose.
O’Brien’s narrative is compelling, meticulously reported, and bolstered by interviews with many of the principals, including, for a while, Rose himself..
