04443cam a2200673 4500 2674114724 TxAuBib 20260205120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593795972 0593795970 d34d19fa-0e3a-4e34-a0a2-8205fb34faca OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9951299 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib O'Brien, Keith, 1973- Charlie Hustle [Libby Audiobook] : The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball. Books on Tape, 2024. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 406MB. sports biographies and autobiographies. baseball books for adults. nonfiction sports books. baseball history book. baseball biographies. sports books for men. History of Baseball. award winning books. sports biographies. books on baseball. baseball pitching. baseball history. new sports books. baseball books. baseball gifts. pete rose book. gifts for dad. Baseball book. gifts for men. books for dad. new dad gifts. sports books. biographies. The Winner. Biography. Pete Rose. dad books. baseball. dad book. sports. sport. reds. HTML:<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> 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."—<i>The Wall Street Journal</i><br /> A <i>NEW YORKER</i> BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY<br /> “Baseball biography at its best. With <i>Charlie Hustle</i>, 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, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>King: A Life</i></b><br /> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> <i>Charlie Hustle</i> 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.<br /> 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. Biography & Autobiography. Sports & Recreations. Nonfiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-02-04 20:00:03. Adair, Ellen. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d34d19fa-0e3a-4e34-a0a2-8205fb34faca&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) BTCLS