{"product_id":"charlie-hustle-the-rise-and-fall-of-pete-rose-and-the-last-glory-days-of-baseball-9780593317372","title":"Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author Keith O'Brien, 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 \u003c\/b\u003e\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keith O'Brien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pantheon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.13w x 1.44d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593317372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/29\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2024 pg. 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44974791065814,"sku":"9780593317372","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/1660\/5398\/products\/img_167361e5-b146-4380-b40f-dc9232ba94df.jpg?v=1707831770","url":"https:\/\/bookclubonmain.com\/products\/charlie-hustle-the-rise-and-fall-of-pete-rose-and-the-last-glory-days-of-baseball-9780593317372","provider":"Book Club On Main","version":"1.0","type":"link"}