Pete Rose

Author : Kostya Kennedy
Publisher : Time Home Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1618939238
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pete Rose written by Kostya Kennedy and published by Time Home Entertainment. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling author Kostya Kennedy delivers evocative answers in his fascinating reexamination of Pete Rose’s life; from his cocky and charismatic early years through his storied playing career to his bitter war against baseball’s hierarchy to the man we find today—still incorrigible, still adored by many. Where has his improbable saga landed him in the redefined, post-steroid world? Do we feel any differently about Pete Rose today? Should we?

Author : William A. Cook
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786417331
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pete Rose written by William A. Cook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : James Reston, Jr.
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803289642
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collision at Home Plate written by James Reston, Jr. and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how the lives of baseball player Pete Rose and baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti collided when Rose was accused of betting on the game

Author : Pete Rose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780134482170
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlie Hustle written by Pete Rose and published by . This book was released on 1975-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas W. Gilbert
Publisher : Facts On File
ISBN 13 : 9780791021712
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pete Rose written by Thomas W. Gilbert and published by Facts On File. This book was released on 1995 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the batter who broke Ty Cobb's record for career base hits shows how his enthusiasm and determination earned him the nickname "Charlie Hustle," while his gambling led to his being banned from baseball.

Author : Mike Towle
Publisher : Cumberland House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781581823530
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pete Rose written by Mike Towle and published by Cumberland House Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years after being banned from Major League Baseball "for life" because of alleged sports gambling, Pete Rose continues to be a colorful and controversial newsmaker. His frequent appeals to Commissioner Bud Selig for reinstatement have had the overwhelming support of fans, reflecting the enthusiasm Rose brought to the game and the passion he has generated over the years. Rose played twenty-four seasons before retiring in 1986 with numerous records: most career hits (4,256), most games played (3,562), most at-bats (14,053), most seasons with 200 or more hits (10), and most winning games played in (1,972). During a career with the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, and Montreal Expos, Rose was the National League's Rookie of the Year in 1963 and its Most Valuable Player in 1973. In addition to winning three batting titles and two Gold Glove Awards, he also was the World Series MVP with Cincinnati's "Big Red Machine" team that won the 1975 world championship. In Pete Rose: Baseball's Charlie Hustle, dozens of the people who know him best -- teammates, opposing players, friends, fans, hometown acquaintances, and baseball experts -- share their memories of the man and the player. Among the many aspects of his life explored are his competitive zeal even as a Little Leaguer, his athletic success in high school, his on-field scrapes and collisions, his leadership role on the Big Red Machine, his leaving the Reds to join the Phillies, his record-setting 44-game hitting streak, his pursuit of Ty Cobb's all-time hits record, his turbulent days as manager of the Reds, his banishment from baseball, and his various enterprises after baseball. Book jacket.

Author : Michael Sokolove
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743284445
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hustle written by Michael Sokolove and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-06-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Keith O'Brien
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0593318439
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradise Falls written by Keith O'Brien and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's deadly secret of Love Canal—exposing one of America’s most devastating toxic waste disasters and sparking the modern environmental movement as we know it today. “Propulsive...A mighty work of historical journalism...A glorious quotidian thriller about people forced to find and use their inner strength.” —The Boston Globe Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls. It had an elementary school, a playground, and rows of affordable homes. But in the spring of 1977, pungent odors began to seep into these little houses, and it didn’t take long for worried mothers to identify the curious scent. It was the sickly sweet smell of chemicals. In this propulsive work of narrative storytelling, NYT journalist Keith O’Brien uncovers how Gibbs and Kenny exposed the poisonous secrets buried in their neighborhood. The school and playground had been built atop an old canal—Love Canal, it was called—that Hooker Chemical, the city’s largest employer, had quietly filled with twenty thousand tons of toxic waste in the 1940s and 1950s. This waste was now leaching to the surface, causing a public health crisis the likes of which America had never seen before and sparking new and specific fears. Luella Kenny believed the chemicals were making her son sick. O’Brien braids together previously unknown stories of Hooker Chemical’s deeds; the local newspaperman, scientist, and congressional staffer who tried to help; the city and state officials who didn’t; and the heroic women who stood up to corporate and governmental indifference to save their families and their children. They would take their fight all the way to the top, winning support from the EPA, the White House, and even President Jimmy Carter. By the time it was over, they would capture America’s imagination. Sweeping and electrifying, Paradise Falls brings to life a defining story from our past, laying bare the dauntless efforts of a few women who—years before Erin Brockovich took up the mantle— fought to rescue their community and their lives from the effects of corporate pollution and laid foundation for the modern environmental movement as we know it today.

Author : Pete Rose
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pete Rose's Winning Baseball written by Pete Rose and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 1976 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines different baseball skills such as hitting, running, playing the various field positions and pitching.

Author : George F. Will
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684853744
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bunts written by George F. Will and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-03-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball is explored with skill, humor, and devotion by a literary great in this compendium which includes a moving eulogy for Curt Flood and no-holds-barred portraits of Ted Williams, Pete Rose, and Billy Martin. 90 photos.