Pete Rose: An American Dilemma

✍ Scribed by Kennedy, Kostya

• Book ID: 108446557
• Publisher: Sports Illustrated
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 754 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781618930965

✦ Synopsis

Pete Rose played baseball with a singular and headfirst abandon that endeared him to fans and peers, even as it riled others—a figure at once magnetic, beloved and polarizing. Rose has more base hits than anyone in history, yet he is not in the Hall of Fame. Twenty-five years ago he was banished from the game for gambling, then ruled ineligible for Cooperstown. Today, the question “Does Pete Rose belong in the Hall of Fame?” has evolved into perhaps the most provocative in sports, a layered, slippery and ever-relevant moral conundrum. How do we evaluate the Hit King now, at a time when steroid cheats appear on the Hall of Fame ballot even as Rose is denied? What do we make of this happily unrepentant gambler, this shameless but beguiling showman whose post-baseball journey has led him to a curious reality show and to the streets of Cooperstown to hawk his signature, his story, himself?