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Pete Rose and Roger Kahn
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Pete Rose: My Story |
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Hardcover |
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300 |
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1989-10 |
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BM117849808992046578 |
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MacMillan Publishing Company |
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For more than 30 years, the name of Pete Rose has been synonymous with the National Pastime.
Pete Rose. Charlie Hustle. The man with more hits in the major leagues than anyone in history. The Big Red Machine. Ray Fosse. Bud Harrelson. The first singles hitter to make $100,000 a year (when $100,000 actually was a lot of money). The 44-game hitting streak. Three National League batting crowns -- two of them won on the last day of the season. The holder of 12 major league records.
Like him or not, Pete Rose is a major part of baseball history, always making headlines with his brash, headfirst style. But for the past year, Pete has made headlines on the sports pages in a different way. Allegations of gambling on games. Chronic gambling, and even more seriously, gambling on the Reds, the very team he managed. And even with Pete voluntarily accepting banishment from the game and the life he loves, the unanswered questions still persist:
* Does Pete suffer from a serious addiction to gambling?
* Why did he accept the Commissioner's terms of banishment if Pete still insists he never bet on baseball?
* And finally, did Pete Rose ever, in fact, bet on the Cincinnati Reds?
At the press conference announcing Rose's expulsion from baseball, his very words were: "I will tell my side of the story in the very near future."
That day has finally come. To demolish the case against him. This, then, is "Pete Rose: My Story."
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Roger Kahn, author of the bestselling "The Boys of Summer" and the highly acclaimed "Good Enough to Dream," has spent the last three years writing this book.
Pete Rose, the future Hall-of-Famer, has played in more winning games than any player in the history of baseball.
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