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A SPORTS ICON. AN INFAMOUS SCANDAL. THE TRUE STORY—LIKE YOU’VE NEVER READ IT BEFORE.
Pete Rose is a baseball legend. He compiled more hits than anyone in the history of the game—a record that remains unbroken—and for decades captured the imagination of a nation. He was the American dream personified. Until 1989, when a sensational scandal brought him crashing down and forever changed the game. Drawing on first-hand interviews with Pete himself, as well as FBI archives, court records, press coverage, and more than 150 hours of interviews with the people who knew Pete best, Keith O’Brien presents the definitive telling of Pete Rose’s story as well as a fascinating cultural portrait of baseball, Cincinnati, and America itself at a time when the biggest star was also the most flawed.
Praise for Keith O’Brien
“O’Brien’s prose reverberates.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A gifted writer who expertly blends emotion and gumshoe reporting.” —Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Fall and Rise and 13 Hours
“O’Brien brings people to life on the page.” —Jonathan Harr, author of A Civil Action


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