{"product_id":"charlie-hustle-the-rise-and-fall-of-pete-rose-and-the-last-glory-days-of-baseball-paperback","title":"Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball - Paperback","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\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003eKEITH O'BRIEN 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 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 11, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51979076043053,"sku":"9780593469392","price":20.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/y5xGXIHjy19780593469392.webp?v=1775818831","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/charlie-hustle-the-rise-and-fall-of-pete-rose-and-the-last-glory-days-of-baseball-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}