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Who is Pete Rose? Is he Charlie Hustle, the all-American kid who never grew up, who pushed and stretched himself to get the most out of his limited talent, who would do anything in his power to win and to be a part of the game he loved? Or is he the bloated ex-athlete who broke baseball's one absolute taboo, and who was willing to drag down the whole structure of the sport to save himself?
In January 2004, Pete Rose publicly admitted to betting on baseball and began his controversial campaign to get himself off the ineligible list and into the Baseball Hall of Fame. His recently published autobiography, the baseball legend's selective telling of the truth, only furthers the myth and the mystery that surrounds him.
With a new, updated introduction by the author, and packed with interviews with Rose's family, his teammates, sportswriters, and police investigators, Hustle is the real, objective story of the life of Pete Rose.
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Charlie Hustle exposed.......2005-10-20
This book nicely represents the seedy side of Pete Rose - a man with no real friends and very few principles. Sokolove portrays Rose as being only out for himself, illustrated at its peek in his chase for Cobb's record. It was interesting to read how many of his contemporaries felt Rose looked foolish chasing the record with such diminished skills.
What may be even sadder is how the Commissioners' office looked the other way for so many years as his gambling problem grew worse. Bowie Kuhn really does not come out looking really strong in his attempt to "clean up" baseball, especially after the drug scandals of the late 70s. Unfortunately, his office's refusal to seriously confront Rose in the 70s led Rose to believe that he was beyond the rules. And, as usually occurs, this led to the crash and destruction of a supposed American hero - finally exposed for his lies and selfishness. The truth must really hurt for his fans in Cincinnati, who praised and adored him for so many years. Somewhere, Ray Fosse is smiling right now.
Depressing.......2005-08-13
Anyone who grew up a Reds fan in the 70's will find this book disturbing and depressing, to say the least.
No one should feel sorry for Pete Rose, he brought his troubles all on himself. What is depressing are the number of enablers he had around him beginning with Major League Baseball itself! Pete's problems could have been confronted as early as 1970 but since he put "fannies in the seats" both the Reds and the commisioners office chose to look the other way.
I reccomend this book not just as a biography but also a study of self destructive behavior and enabling an addict.
After you're finished find something humorous to read, you'll need it.
Pete Rose is white trash.......2004-01-08
Pete Rose is white trash, that is what is comes down to.
Pete Rose is a real jerk. The guy could play baseball, but that's it.
As a person, he is a jerk.
As least he will never get into the baseball hall of fame. If Pete Rose got into that sacred place, it would be a shame.
An Excellent Study of the Enigmatic Pete Rose.......2002-07-08
Sokolove's book is truly an excellent read. Although the title gives the connotation that the book is going to be a hatchet job on Pete Rose, the book is actually carefully researched and well written. I have been a Pete Rose fan for most of my life. I admired his determination and ability to play each game as though it were the seventh game of the World Series. (If we only had players like that today . . .) Sokolove does a great job at capturing the qualities that made him one of baseball's greatest players.
However, Pete Rose was also a shady character who loved having an entourage perform errands for him and tell him how great he was. Pete Rose, as a beloved baseball star, felt that he was above the rest of society and eventually this caught up to him in 1989-1990. Sokolove delves deeply into the character flaws of Rose that ultimately led to his exile from baseball and imprisonment for tax fraud. What is particularly interesting about Sokolove's book is how he deals with the careful way Rose constructed his own mythology by using the press to his advantage. In sum, this book is the story of a great player and flawed personality who learned (I hope) the hard way that even if you have 4256 hits in Major League Baseball, you can still end up like Oedipus in Colonus.
Very Well Balanced Informative Biography.......1997-08-15
This is a well written, thoroughly researched biography. A great many former teammates and friends of Pete Rose were interviewed for the book. He is portrayed in both his positive and negative aspects. The conclusions drawn at the end seem very solid and built on a good foundation.
I would recommend this book to any base ball fan and especially and Cincinnati Reds fan. I learned a good amount not only about Pete Rose but also about baseball during the 1960's - 1980's and the social history of the city of Cincinnati.
While the book may seem like an attack on Rose at first glance it really is probably one of the most well balanced biographys I've ever read. Probably the most realistic book about Rose available.
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My Prison Without Bars
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Pete Rose's My Prison Without Bars is written for a purpose: to make Pete Rose's case for the Hall of Fame. On paper, Rose's credentials seem unassailable. The all-time career hits leader, Rose owns seven Major League and twelve National League records from his 24 years in baseball.
The controversy comes down to Major League Baseball's Rule 21: "Any... employee, who shall bet any sum whatsoever upon any baseball game in connection with which the bettor has a duty to perform shall be declared permanently ineligible." In 1989 Rose was suspended from baseball after allegations that he gambled on the sport, allegations Rose denied. Thereafter, fans and sportswriters have speculated that baseball officials would re-instate Rose if only he admitted his guilt. In the book, Rose confesses--for the first time--that he did in fact bet on Reds games while he managed the team, though he claims that he never bet against the Reds. This would seem to be the "coming clean" that baseball was looking for.
Rose, however, doesn't seem ready to give up his fight. The book attacks John Dowd and Commissioner Bart Giamatti for the 1989 report which ultimately led to Rose's suspension. Rose picks apart the report showing that the evidence was either falsified or from unreliable sources. Yet, he admits that the document's conclusion--that he bet on baseball--was accurate. Rose declares guilt but still seems to believe, as he says, that gambling is a "victimless crime" and that his punishment does not fit the crime. He won't "act sorry or sad or guilty" because he is "just not built that way."
Admirers of Rose the athelete will likely be disappointed by the book. After a too-short recollection of his life in baseball, Rose dwells heavily on the gamblers, bookmakers, runners, and memorabilia dealers who made up his world when he could no longer compete as a player. In the end, My Prison Without Bars is an interesting historical document in one of the greatest baseball scandals of all time, but those looking for a record of Rose's amazing baseball achievements are better off consulting The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. --Patrick O'Kelley
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Pete Rose is an enduring baseball celebrity. Fourteen years since he was banned from the game of baseball in a scandal that has overshadowed the game itself, speculation about Pete Rose's future still makes front-page news. lThe first book by Pete Rose since 1989 lTimed to release at the beginning of baseball season
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Interesting read, Rose shows lack of class.......2007-09-13
Pete Rose was one of the best baseball players, but obviously extremely dumb. He admits at the end of the book that he bet on baseball, but says he did not bet on his team. Betting on baseball itself, is extremely unseemely to hear, and if he lied just about this for 15 years is he still covering up the worst sin of betting on or against his team. I would say a dummy like this probably did bet on his team. I knew after I read "Say it Ain't So" about the Blacksox scandal, that if you bet on baseball you would be banned forever from the game--no excuses!!!. I would recommend to Rose to read that book and study Judge Landis Verdict in that case. I knew this when I was 14 years old and Rose still did not even mention this in his book and still doesn't seem to get it. This guy is a hustler/jailbird and should be banned for life just for being stupid enough to do something like this----- Hey, Rose you didn't mention Judge Landis
Poor Pete Rose..........2007-03-26
Poor Pete Rose...
After reading Pete's book, Pete Rose, My Prison Without Bars, you just have to think it's such a shame that all those unfortunate events took place in Pete's life. I mean, the man plainly had to have a way to reduce all the stress he was forced to deal with. So Pete turned to gambling. After all, it was his money, wasn't it? Couldn't he do whatever he wanted with HIS money? And hadn't his father taken him to the racetracks and showed Pete how the "big boys bet"? Sure he did. So if Pete's father gambled, and Pete absolutely idolized his father, then the kid had to think gambling was okay...provided, of course, the gambling didn't interfere with the family's livelihood.
Then too, Pete was afflicted with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), which basically meant he was so full of crap he couldn't sit still long enough to pay attention to what an instructor was saying, though he was doing okay until they told him that Pete was too small to play sports. After that, Pete was so distraught he flunked tenth grade. I might have fallen for Pete's claim to the ADHD problem if he hadn't been so good at numbers, a bookmaker's odds, placing bets, remembering who he owed or who owed him. And we aren't talking chicken feed either. Pete may not have been so much ADHD as he was BWSW (bored with school work), and figured out a way to get around it. Then he had that other problem, ODB (Oppositional Defiant Behavior) that was probably inherited from his mother. She could literally "whup the crap out of you" if someone made her good and mad...and, in fact, often did just that. Basically, what ODB really meant was that you didn't TELL Pete what to do. You ASK him...nicely.
Pete was no quitter and definitely wasn't lazy when it came to playing baseball. He proved this to the entire world by the baseball records he set, which are to be admired. It was simply all those other rules that seemed to get in Pete's way, so he ignored them. Nobody could make me believe the man didn't know how to read, and Rule #21 was pretty self-explanatory: DON'T BET ON BASEBALL. But Pete did, and as you'd expect, he really didn't mean to do it, he simply couldn't help himself because of the stress. Admittedly, Pete wasn't a very "warm and fuzzy" type person, so relaxing at home with his family was out of the question. It was the excitement of the racetracks and the bookmakers that helped Pete to relax. Of course, the reason he wasn't a very warm and fuzzy type person was because of his childhood. He couldn't remember his parents ever saying they loved him, but he knew they did. Likewise, he never bothered with telling his children that he loved them either. Nope, not much show of affection going on in the Rose clan.
But let's face it, Rules are Rules. And even though Rules supposedly aren't made to be broken, we all know that most rules are often bent, if, in fact, not broken. Pete Rose doesn't stand alone in the rule-breaking/bending area. However, if the posted rules really don't stand for what they mean, then why have the damn things in the first place?
Pete Rose didn't do time in the Marion Penitentiary because of gambling. He was given a five-month sentence because of income tax evasion. And even though he may have avoided paying some income taxes, I'm certain he could have paid his fines and back taxes and not had to serve time in a federal prison. Most of those guys in Pete's tax bracket end up trying to beat the tax system in any manner that they can, and even when they're caught, they don't usually end up in a federal prison. Personally, I think Pete got a raw deal.
Do I think Pete should be forgiven for his betting on baseball and be inducted into the Hall of Fame? I'm not sure and I'm glad that's not my call. I do know there are a lot worse offenses committed by big name athletes today, so if betting on baseball was Pete's only offense, then it does tend to make one wonder. Pete didn't drink, do drugs, or smoke and, he was dedicated the game of baseball. The baseball records he set were earned by his physical and mental ability and done without the aid of steroids...unlike a few other big-name baseball players we know. I guess what it boils down to, is whether or not Pete should be forgiven. We know if this hadn't happened, Pete would already been in Baseball's Hall of Fame. I seriously doubt there's a baseball player out there that in all good conscience would step up to cast the first stone at Pete Rose.
Finally, I must say I think Rick Hill did a fairly decent job on putting this book together. There were a few areas that could have used a little polishing. I had to laugh at one of Pete's statements when he said, "I got anxious and SWANG right outta my jock". Considering what Hill had to work with, he did okay. This book tells a great deal about Pete Rose's life. If I hadn't read another manuscript given to me by a gentleman that actually served time with Pete Rose in Marion, and recalling the remarks he'd made about Pete, then I might have fallen for some of Pete's story. I just have to keep in mind that this book IS PETE'S STORY, as told by Pete, and not exactly what the other inmates thought of Pete Rose as a person. And if you're a Pete Rose fan, then you don't even want me to go there.
Good Efforts Gone Awry .......2007-01-11
Was there ever a man more misunderstood. This guy worked hard his whole life. He made some mistakes along the way. If you read the book you will get some insight into Pete Rose. He admits his mistakes. He is older and wiser since he retired so it is time to lighten up on the guy. I wish some baseball player-athletes who are making the really big bucks these days come out and say they are using steroids if in fact they are. Some of the homerun numbers being posted the last few years look questionable. If just one player using steroids to enhance his statistics makes it into the baseball hall of fame on tainted records, that would destroy the credibility of the entire sport and all the legitimate records of players who went on the field and performed with their natural given talents. Pete Rose's story is the real thing and so was his play on the field. After reading this book I feel for the guy.
Casting Stones.......2007-01-10
Let the person without sin cast the first stone or something to that effect. That phrase comes to mind when pondering the career of Pete Rose because that is all the media has concentrated on and that is a sad perspective. This book may actually be as subjective as the media's portrayal of the man but the book seems pretty objective and genuine to me. I may be naive. So be it.
From his book I gather Pete Rose was quite a hustler on and off the field. His statistics speak for themselves. Seeing footage of this man playing baseball always impresses me. He pushed his body to the limit and exceeded his natural athletic abilities. This man really hustled out there in the field. He's the kind of person you like or don't like and there is no room for anything in between. That drove him to greatness as well as destroying some of his aspirations in the process.
I like this book. I think or rationalize that perhaps he wrote this with the hope it will help get him one step closer to the Baseball Hall of Fame. You see that Pete Rose is a born hustler and that aspect of his psyche affects and drives everything he did or will do. He seems to come clean and talk about some of his transgressions with candor. That aspect or admission really does not interest me one way or the other. I was very curious to hear how he assessed his career in his own words. I am interested in the athlete and what made him great on the field. To that end this is a good book. If you like baseball it should interest you.
What Is The Real Story.......2006-09-22
It seems somewhat fitting that Pete Rose has basically set up shop signing autographs in Las Vegas. He has spent the past twenty or so years trying to bluff his way through problems like the top pros in Texas Hold 'Em.
But back when Rose was in the throes of tax evasion woes due to not declaring cash payoffs from memorabilia show appearances, an interesting article appeared in The Nation. It reported that Rose was approached by Gary Carter to assist current and former major leaguers in taking baseball gear for leisure activity to the Contras - the "Freedom Fighters" - engaged in a civil war with the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua and supported by the Reagan Administration.
Rose, according to the article, told Carter that he never mixed politics with baseball and - even if he did - there was no way he would support this activity. Not that many months after the conversation with Carter, the article stated Rose then conveniently became a target for investigation concerning undeclared taxes from appearances at memorabilia shows.
I have never heard Rose discuss the material in the article. And to be fair, Rose wasn't the only former superstar who tried to make the lucerative market of signing autographs at shows even more so by pocketing the cash as if it was found in the middle of a field. Duke Snyder and Willie McCovey also come to mind as others whose greed superseded common-sense.
So with that article still in my mind, I read the latest Rose autobiography. The bombshell was Rose admitted publicly that the 1989 report issued by Commissioner Bart Giamatti - which ultimately led to Rose's banishment from the game - that states he bet on baseball was correct.
The reader is left wondering where Rose's standing in baseball would be today if he had admitted to betting on the game back then. Though Rose intoduces the reader to his life with gamblers, bookmakers and runners, I don't know if it's more spin than truth.
The book continued the debate on whether Rose should be elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, but basically sharpened the camps of those who feel he should be in the hall and those who don't.
As I write this, Rose is marketing an autographed baseball for $299 with the inscription, "I'm Sorry I Bet On Baseball." Rose says the unique autograph is being made available because some signed baseball's with that inscription for the private collection of a friend - who since passed away - have surfaced and are being sold at auction.
It seems Rose is more than willing to cash in on his banishment from baseball. And one autographed baseball is like the cover price of a dozen books.
I am left with the question, was it Rose's political stance that led to the unraveling of his life in baseball? If additional evidence comes out that The Nation article was correct, then it may have been the only time Rose showed the cards he had in his hand, and he lost.
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Had there been just a little less chaos abroad in the universe, the lives of Pete Rose and A. Bartlett Giamatti might have kept on parallel tracks to infinity, blissfully out of the way of each other's extremes. Rose, baseball's most primitive outlaw since Cobb, and Giamatti, the Renaissance scholar who presided over Yale before taking on the comissionership of the national pastime, could not have been more different. Rose was arrogant, profligate, libidinous, and excessive; Giamatti was courtly, erudite, philosophical, and, in his way, every bit as excessive. Baseball hurled them into each other, and when it pitted them face to face over allegations of Rose's gambling, the pyrotechnics roared like cymbals clashing in a silent night.
The story of that clash is one of baseball's blackest moments, with no winner anywhere, and Reston replays it in all of its grim, grisly detail. Rose, the accused, was, of course, banned from the game for life; Giamatti, the accuser, died of a heart attack just days after the banning. But Reston isn't satisfied to simply play out the endgame confrontation of the sinner and the standard bearer, and that's the brilliance of his book; he entwines their complex and fascinating biographies in a way that makes their collision seem tragically, almost surreally, inevitable. Each man was failed by his flaws, and it's the flaws that made each personality so compelling.
Still, it was their very failures of character that slapped each with a fate neither would have willingly chosen: Rose the unpenitent outcast, Giamatti the eternal martyr. The Rose case, writes Reston, "elevated (Giamatti) to heroic stature in America. By banishing a sport hero, he became a moral hero to the nation." The final irony is that the gregarious Giamatti, who indeed relished the role of moral hero, didn't live to experience his own apotheosis. --Jeff Silverman
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Collision at Home Plate is a dual biography of Pete Rose, an uncouth but great ballplayer who suffered disgrace and imprisonment, and Bart Giamatti, the baseball commissioner so deeply shaken and bruised by the Rose scandal that he died a week after it was made public. This is the definitive book on one of the most traumatic and tragic episodes in baseball history.
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A baseball morality tale.......2007-10-14
An important story and a modern tragedy, told in a highly readable manner. As a big fan of Pete Rose in his playing days, I initially thought James Reston was unfairly biased against Rose through many parts of the book. After finishing it, I think he probably struck the right balance, as there is simply no excuse for much of what Rose did off the field. Reston almost but did not quite fall into the trap of deifying Giamatti; he was, after all an extraordinary commissioner unlike baseball had ever seen. But Reston correctly pointed out that Giamatti bungled the investigation of Rose from a due process and fairness point of view, and if the matter had gone to trial Giamatti would have had a very difficult time on the stand.
The real point is that Giamatti did investigate, and he did take action. Even with the "settlement" that did not answer the question of whether Rose bet on baseball, Giamatti felt no constraint against offering his own opinion as to Rose and his betting on baseball. And Rose did bet on baseball. We can learn from Giamatti. How refreshing it would be to have a commissioner who would take on the steroids scandal which has made a mockery of home run records and likely changed the outcome of far more games and pennant races than gambling ever did. Where is the courage to have a thorough investigation, and a commissioner who would speak the truth?
Unfortunately, baseball has been a silent partner in the steroids scandal, happily banking the proceeds of increased attendance pursuant to amazing and superhuman home run derbys. I don't think Bart Giamatti would approve, and I would like to think he would acted to protect the integrity of baseball.
Finally, I agree with Reston's take on the Hall of Fame issue. Let the sportswriters vote. If they say yes to Rose, tell Rose's story in a display at the hall, the good and the bad. Especially the bad. And do the same for those whose steroid-enhanced records make them "worthy" of consideration in the future.
Disappointing.......2004-08-16
Interesting idea but ultimately the book fails. The contrast between Giamatti, a man of ideas, and Rose, a man of action -- both flawed in different ways should have made a fascinating read. Instead, the book plods along until the final 50 pages when it begins to redeem itself.
Giamatti's life was just not that compelling and the ponderous quotes from his writings makes one wonder if anyone actually understood Giamatti's abstruse points.
Rose, by contrast, had a more one-dimensional life but emerges as the more interesting person.
It would have been better if Reston had focused on the years of conflict between the two and flashed back to past biographical events to explain how the actions taken by the principals were shaped by those past events. Had Reston examined why Rose handled the pressure better than Giamatti would have been a shorter, tighter and punchier book. Writing chronologically slowed the book down and I was glad to have reached the end and be done with it.
The author's reseach is quite good although trivial errors (Dick Cavett's wife is Carrie Nye, Whitey Ford coined the nickname "Charley Hustle"), are annoying.
I expected more.
Very interesting book.......2004-01-08
The book is an interesting biography of two very different people.
Pete Rose is a real jerk. The guy could play baseball, but that's it.
As a person, he is a jerk.
As least he will never get into the baseball hall of fame. If Pete Rose got into that sacred place, it would be a shame.
Strikes out.......2001-07-16
I never finished it. I wanted to read a story of Pete Rose's suspension from baseball and instead got a history of Giamatti's life.
If you aren't a diehard, you may want to give this one a miss.
Engaging Sports History.......2001-02-15
An excellent profile of two persons striving to be outstanding in their field (no pun intended). It shows how talented players who were friends of Rose melted into other professions, lacking the single-minded drive that he had.
I want my daughter to read it because it's also an excellent profile of eastern private schools and the politics of getting admitted, being a student and professor. Reston believes that both men at their peak represented the best of their profession. (I can't tell my daughter that's the other side that she'd find interesting because it would be as well-received as a lecture.)
The book goes through the childhood of both men and their professional development. The details on Rose's gambling are convincing: you literally see how Pete self-destructed. I think that it was a cab driver who sums up how Pete could have saved himself right up to the end (the paraphrasing is mine: "apologize, indicate that he'd never bet for or against Cincinnati, and gotten away from gamblers") but was so ego-centric that he was self-destructive. As for betting on the Reds, it's clear that he did.
A well-told story, but Reston is not as crisp a writer as his father. His transitions are often awkward, leaving you wondering what topic he's on. And there's a factual error so glaring that I wondered how a sportswriter or editor could let it get by -- he refers to the Chicago Cubs as the "Southsiders."
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Pete Rose: Baseball's All-Time Hit King
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On September 11, 1985, with a sell-out crowd of 52,000 fans on hand at = Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium and millions of others watching on = television, Pete Rose collected hit number 4,192 of his career and = passed Ty Cobb as the all-time career hits leader. As he reached first = base, thousands of cameras flashed, his teammates mobbed him, fireworks = exploded and the crowd overwhelmed him with a seven-minute standing = ovation. Rose was on top of the world. Less than four years later, he = would be banned for life from baseball for allegedly betting on major = league games, roundly criticized in the press by both fans and fellow = players, and then convicted for tax evasion.
In 2003, fourteen years after he was made ineligible for the Hall of = Fame, Commissioner Bud Selig took up Rose's application for = reinstatement, igniting once again an intense debate about his legacy = and baseball's long-standing zero-tolerance policy on gambling. This = book gathers the available facts of Rose's life and career, as well as = the scandals he was embroiled in, leaving the reader a more informed = participant in the ongoing discussion.
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"Pete Rose" - Baseball's All Time Hit King?.......2004-01-19
Great book! The author really captures the Pete Rose story in depth. I highly recommend this book!
crappy no good man.......2004-01-14
This Book should of not been published he is a no good person dont waste your money on this book buy something else with your well spent money!!!!!!!!! But if you are a Baseball fan then your going to buy this book....
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Decent at Best.......2003-10-10
The book was very well written and was very good up until the time when Rose was charged with gambling. When it got at this time Rose talked around every single topic he was asked. Because of this book I am 99% sure Pete Rose bet on baseball.
A Mediocre Book, But Essential For Any Pete Rose Fan.......2002-07-15
I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the strange and unfortunate saga of Pete Rose. It offers his version of the "truth" regarding his banishment from baseball as well as his views about his magnificent career. Although the book features the information most fans would want to know, it is not structured well. Roger Kahn organizes the book as almost a dialogue between Rose and himself, which gives the reader the feeling that the book is cut and pasted together from random interviews. The transitions from Kahn's views to Rose's views are sloppy and at times confusing. It is hard to believe that Kahn spent three years writing this book.
Buy the book for its information and overlook the unfortunate fact that Pete Rose selected the wrong person to write his biography. Roger Kahn was either loafing through the project or he was severely past his prime. Maybe he should have "hung `em up" when Pete Rose did.
A GOOD READ.......2002-06-17
PETE ROSE DOES A GOOD JOB IN THIS STORY CONCERNING HIS CAREER AND PRIVATE LIFE. THE CONTROVERSY CONCERNING HIS GAMBLING IS DONE IN GREAT DETAIL AND IS A STAND OUT. PETE COMES ACROSS AS BEING CONFIDENT AND AT TIMES COCKY, HONEST, AND ARROGANT. I ADMIRE PETE THE BALL PLAYER, BUT AS A HUMAN BEING HE IS NOT A MODEL CITIZEN. I FOUND THIS BOOK WELL WRITTEN AND QUITE INTERESTING. A MUST FOR PETE ROSE FANS.
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A middling first rate account.......2000-08-04
This book is Rose's day by day account of his record breaking 1985 season. The most unintentionally funny moment is when he mentions being tempted to go to the dogtrack while on a road trip but ultimately containing his urges. Yeah, right!
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Pete Rose a baseball great.......2000-11-30
this was a great book with some wonderful facts and in fo i say u should read it
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