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Keith\xa0O\u2019Brien\u2019s CHARLIE\xa0HUSTLE\xa0is the definitive story of Pete Rose's rise and fall, built with the help of federal court documents never utilized before, interviews with three former associates who placed Pete's bets on baseball, 27 hours of interviews with Pete himself, and over 150 hours of interviews in all. It is the story unlike it's ever been told before at a time when Pete's greatest sin\u2014gambling on sports\u2014is now legal in most places and encouraged by baseball itself. This year, Americans are on pace to legally wager $130 billion on sports, a new record.

CHARLIE\xa0HUSTLE\xa0is also a snapshot of baseball and America during a time when everything changed. Between 1960 and 1989\u2014Pete's career in baseball\u2014the game transitioned from being an unpolished national pastime, rough around the edges and to a diverse, billion-dollar sport covered by 24-hour news networks. Pete's many misdeeds in the shadows would not be tolerated in this new world. And the book makes clear that Pete self-destructs off the field for the same reason why he ever succeeded on it. Put simply: He refused to lose. He refused to break. He refused to tell the truth about his addictions, until it was too late.

KEITH O\u2019BRIEN\xa0is the New York Times bestselling author of\xa0Paradise Falls,\xa0Fly Girls, and\xa0Outside Shot, a finalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting, and an award-winning journalist. O\u2019Brien has written for\xa0The New York Times,\xa0The Washington Post, and\xa0Politico, and his stories have also appeared on National Public Radio and\xa0This American Life. He lives in New Hampshire.

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