Pete Rose was racking up hits on the field. Off the field, he accrued debt from gambling. His perseverance at the plate paid off, as he became the baseball player with the most hits ever, but his recklessness cost him dearly: a permanent ban from Major League Baseball and, eventually, admission into the Hall of Fame. Veteran journalist Keith O’Brien’s new book Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball revisits this dramatic tale.
feel like we’ve forgotten why we ever cared about Pete Rose in the first place in the 35 years since he was banned from baseball and committed numerous mistakes off the field, according to O’Brien. “I wanted to go back and read that entire story, that entire arc, first.”
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