Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball - Keith O'brien

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR nA 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 n nLong before the inquiry into Ohtani's ties to betting, there was Pete Rose....Charlie Hustle chronicles one of the most polarizing figures in sports.--NPR, All Things Considered n nBaseball 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, 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, New York Times bestselling author of King: A Life n nPete 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. n nIn 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

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