⭐“Sports biographies don’t get much better than this enthralling and tragic account....Definitive and elegantly told, this is a home run.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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“Baseball biography at its best. 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 Best-Selling Author of KING: A LIFE
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“A thoroughly reported, up-to-date account of a tragic American sports star. O’Brien takes us through the highs and lows of Pete Rose’s rise and fall. Even if you think you already know it all, read this book. This is powerful new stuff.”
DAN SHAUGHNESSY
New York Times Best-Selling Author of Francona
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“I’ve never liked Pete Rose . . . But he also may well be the most fascinating pro athlete of the last century. And that’s what makes Keith O’Brien’s richly reported, beautifully written Charlie Hustle so damn good. It’s riveting. It’s engrossing. And, like Rose, it’s impossible to ignore.”
JEFF PEARLMAN
New York Times Best-Selling Author of The Last Folk Hero
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“Pete Rose's epic life demands the epic treatment, and Keith O'Brien marvelously takes on the challenge. He captures the dizzying heights and calamitous lows but, even more, finds the humanity of the man who lived a sports life unlike any other.”
JOE POSNANSKI
New York Times Best-Selling Author of Why We Love Baseball: A History In 50 Moments
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“A dazzling, soaring accomplishment; a counterpoint to the tragic fall of one of the game’s greatest, brought on entirely by his own hubris, arrogance, and insolent disregard for baseball’s stern code.”
KEN BURNS
Filmmaker
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