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Author O'Brien, Keith, 1973- author.

Title Charlie Hustle : the rise and fall of Pete Rose, and the last glory days of baseball / Keith O'Brien.

Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books, [2024]
©2024
2 holds on first copy returned of 10 copies

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - New Materials  92 BIOGRAPHY ROSE    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult New Materials Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY ROSE    On Holdshelf
 Enfield, Main Library - ON-ORDER (not available yet)    On Order
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult New Materials  796.357 OBR    Check Shelf
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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - ON-ORDER (not available yet)    On Order
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult New Materials  796.357 ROSE O    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - New Materials  NEW B ROSE    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - New Materials  B ROSE    In Processing
 Farmington, Barney Branch - Adult New Materials  796.357 OBR    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 440 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary "A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling 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. Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He had compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago, which still stands. At the same time, 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 the biggest scandal in baseball history. Baseball no longer needed Pete Rose, and he was magnificently, publicly cast out for betting on baseball and lying about it. The revelations that followed ruined Pete, changed life in Cincinnati, and forever altered the game. Charlie Hustle tells the full story of one of America's most epic tragedies, the rise and fall of Pete Rose, one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Drawing on first-hand interviews with Pete himself, his associates, as well as on investigators, FBI and court records, archives, a mountain of press coverage, Keith O'Brien chronicles how Pete fell so far from being America's "great white hope." It is Rose as we've never seen before. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-418) and index.
Contents Act 1. Rise -- Act 2. Shine -- Act 3. Fame -- Act 4. Fall -- Act 5. Wreckage.
Subject Rose, Pete, 1941-
Cincinnati Reds (Baseball team) -- History.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
Sports betting -- United States.
Rose, Pete, 1941- (OCoLC)fst00102321
Cincinnati Reds (Baseball team) (OCoLC)fst00512946
Baseball players -- Biography (OCoLC)fst00828011
Sports betting (OCoLC)fst01130570
United States (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports.
History (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
Other Form: Online version: O'Brien, Keith, 1973- Charlie Hustle New York : Pantheon Books, [2024] 9780593317389 (DLC) 2023020622
ISBN 9780593317372 (hardcover)
0593317378 (hardcover)
9780593317389 (ebk)
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