{"product_id":"charlie-hustle-the-rise-and-fall-of-pete-rose-and-the-last-glory-days-of-baseball-hardcover","title":"Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKeith O'Brien\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - 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.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Long before the inquiry into Ohtani's ties to betting, there was Pete Rose....\u003ci\u003eCharlie Hustle\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles one of the most polarizing figures in sports.\"--NPR, All Things Considered \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Baseball biography at its best. With \u003ci\u003eCharlie Hustle\u003c\/i\u003e, Pete Rose finally gets the book he deserves, and baseball fans get the book we've been craving, a hard-hitting, beautifully-written tale that will stand for years to come as the definitive account of one of the most fascinating figures in American sports history.\"--Jonathan Eig, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eKing: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePete 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharlie Hustle\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKEITH O'BRIEN\u003c\/b\u003e is the New York Times bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eParadise Falls\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFly Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOutside Shot\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the PEN\/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting, and an award-winning journalist. O'Brien has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePolitico\u003c\/i\u003e, and his stories have also appeared on National Public Radio and \u003ci\u003eThis American Life\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New Hampshire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.51 x 9.4 x 6.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44802591752294,"sku":"9780593317372","price":43.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/KFF5_G1jo-9780593317372.webp?v=1771358564","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/charlie-hustle-the-rise-and-fall-of-pete-rose-and-the-last-glory-days-of-baseball-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}