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NEW YORK TIMES 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."—The Wall Street Journal

"Long 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

“Baseball 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

Pete 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.

In 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.

Charlie Hustle 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.

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.

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pantheon (March 26, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593317378
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593317372
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.61 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.54 x 1.57 x 9.57 inches
Reviewer: BuffaloSteve
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent book about Pete Rose
Review: The book is very well written and I felt a balanced look at Pete's Rose's life and career. As a person Pete comes across as a much flawed human and not a very nice one. As a baseball player you appreciate the success he had and the effort that it took for Pete to get there There is evidence that Pete may have used a corked bat at the end of his career to help break Ty Cobb's hit record but throughout his baseball life hard work and hustle helped him overachieve and become one of the all-time greats on the field. I generally like to read about the life of ballplayers that played before I was born but I saw the author do a presentation about the book and I was intrigued to pre-buy it. I'm really glad I did as not only did I learn a lot about Pete Rose but Keith O'Brien is a skilled writer. I look forward to reading another of his books, whatever the subject I am sure it will be interesting. I read all the notes and sources in the back of the book after I finished reading the story and you can see that he is a professional journalist in the amount and quality of research that went into writing this book. I very much appreciated the amount of first hand interviews that he conducted including many with Pete himself (until Pete suddenly stopped taking his calls). I'm sure readers will have different feelings about Pete after reading the book. I found myself thinking that Pete was a whole lot worse of a person than I previously knew, but at the same time, at the end of the book, I'm left feeling sorry for him and what his life has become.

Reviewer: David Schindel
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Say it ain’t so
Review: Good read. It shines la very different light on the Red Machine

Reviewer: grahamgg
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Well researched & unbiased view of Rose's complicated legacy
Review: First off, this book was exhaustively researched and well written. I highly recommend it for any fan of major league baseball and Pete Rose.The book is written in a factual, unbiased view, and presents the facts as they haven revealed related to Rose's activities over the years. The book functions not only as a retrospective of Rose's life & career, it also functions well as a historical snapshot of the modernization of baseball with the advent of free agency & arbitration, the boom in salaries and player negotiating power in the late 20th century. All the while, the growth of Cincinnati serves as a backdrop. Stadiums were built, neighborhoods boomed & busted, and Rose continued playing (and getting up to shady shenanigans) for nearly a quarter century while being celebrated as one of MLB's all time greats.Learn about Rose's upbringing on the working class west side of Cincinnati as a scrappy bush league baseball & basketball player and watch as his self-sabotaging personality traits eventually lead to his fall from grace. No doubt, Rose was one of the top tier MLB players ever and the book chronicles his later years, banned from MLB, serving time in prison, and his many attempts at getting reinstated.I agree with the author that anything Rose (and players of his era) did pales in comparison to players who flourished during the steroid era and the analytics approach to managing took over the sport. Baseball became unwatchable to the point the rules were changes in 2023 to make the game more appealing and hitter friendly. This viewpoint is largely glossed over in the last half of the last chapter of the book, and could've been expanded upon. That said, overall I give this book a solid 5 stars. I really enjoyed reading it.

Reviewer: Tweener
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Sad time for Pete Rose fans
Review: This book was an especially interesting read after Pete's death. I started this book and then watched the HBO series on Pete before finishing most of it only days before he died. So many things about Pete were and are clearly unfair, especially waiting until after his death before seriously contemplating his HOF induction. His life was the best commercial ever for baseball, as he often said. No question MLB will use Pete now, after he is gone, to further line their pockets. This all should have been worked out years ago.

Reviewer: A human story
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A most human story
Review: A human story of brokenness and the sometimes partial and incomplete redemption that happens in this life. Well researched and with characters who come alive this book tells Pete’s story in all its glory and grittiness. As a man who grew up an hour from Cincinnati in the 70s and 80s and as a Reds fan, I couldn’t put this book down. I learned things I never knew about the team and sport I idolized as a young man. I was especially surprised (and pleased) to get to know more about Bart Giammati. This book filled in holes in the story for me and was pleasing to read. Most of all it made me reflect upon all of our humanness and how that plays out in real life. Highly recommend!

Reviewer: David Hill
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent spot-on product description. Delivery time also spot-on.
Review: Spot-on book description and delivery timing. Good value.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A great player and a flawed human
Review: This well researched and well documented biography of Pete Rose tells Pete's story from his earliest days as an overachieving athlete to his somewhat lucky start in professional baseball to his legendary record breaking major league career. Much of this story is already known by even the casual baseball fan. But it is Pete's dark side which is laid bare in this biography. His womanizing, his neglect of his own children and finally his gambling all bring about his downfall. Pete violated the cardinal rule in baseball, namely do no bet on baseball games, particularly your own team. The documentation for his gambling is clearly laid out. And the 35 years from Pete's banishment from baseball to the present is a great standalone story but side by side with his 25 year baseball career is a Shakesperean tragedy. A great read.

Reviewer: blair angus
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Good story telling of him