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You could say the story of Pete Rose is a tragedy. Here was a man who had it all, batting titles, World championships, an MVP award, countless fans and admirers, and of course the seemingly unbreakable hits record. But Pete was banished from the game he loved. Why? Mainly because he felt he was above the rules. And as you'll read in this excellent book, Rose had good reason to think that. Numerous people knew of Rose's gambling addiction, but chose to ignore it.

Sokolove paints a fair, albeit unpretty, picture of Charlie Hustle. Don't let the subtitle fool you, this is no hatchet job. Sokolove talked to many people and gives you a clear view of Rose the player and Rose the man. One was admirable, the other was not. While you see Rose's giving side, you'll also see his ugly side also. Rose had no idea what it meant to be a husband or father. There are at least a couple Pete quotes that will make you wince, facepalm, or both.

The book might be a tad dated (it came out in 1990), but I don't think that takes anything away from it. There's a new introduction for this edition which came out in 2005 after Pete finally came clean and released yet another book "My Prison Without Bars." While his fans might not like the Pete Rose they see in here, other baseball fans and those interested in his rise and fall will find this informative and tough to put down.


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HUSTLE MYTH AND LIFE OF PETE ROSE Michael Sokolove Books Reviews

I've always believed that Pete Rose should be a Hall of Famer based upon his play on the field, and this book does not make me think any differently. What it did do was give me a much clearer picture of Pete Rose the person and not Pete Rose the baseball player.
Rose was a deeply flawed individual in many ways. The things he did, the people he associated with, and the choices he made off the field were often times very poor. Michael Sokolove seemed to me to have an "anti-Rose" bias, but he provides more than enough evidence to convince any reader that Rose was by no means a saint like his celebrity status may have made him out to be. I learned a great deal about why so many people perceive Rose in such a negative manner, and I understand it much more clearly now.
The book focuses more on his off the field life than his on the field life, and for me, that was a good thing. We all know the records that Pete Rose holds and his many accomplishments as a baseball player. If you want to learn about the rest of his story, then this is a must-read that I would definitely recommend.
A reader might be disappointed in the official autobiographies of Pete Rose. In his collaboration with Roger Kahn in 1989, Pete was distracted, disengaged, and untruthful. A later autobiography, inked by Rick Hill, contained editing mistakes with names and events that someone who followed baseball daily would not have made. A frustrated fan might turn to ‘Hustle The Myth, Life, and Lies of Pete Rose’ by Michael Y. Sokolove for an accurate picture of baseball’s Hit King.

Sokolove wrote an expose of Rose, rather than a biography. Anyone reading Chapter Ten, ‘The Friends of Pete Rose,” will come away with a disturbing picture of the Hit King. Pete not only bet on baseball, but he did so in the clubhouse, and was so distracted with gambling that he neglected his duties as a manager. Sokolove paints a picture of a gambler so out-of-control that MLB officials had no choice but to eject Pete Rose from the game.

At times, Sokolove tried too hard to discredit Rose. He recycled a quote from Fawn Rose, Pete’s daughter, which Pat Jordan first used in an article in 1989. In his book with Roger Kahn, Pete explained that the quote was made when Fawn was a girl and when Pete was going through a divorce with Fawn’s mother, Karolyn, in the late 1970s. Using this irrelevant quote to make a case against Pete was not only done in bad taste, but unnecessary.

Nor can much be made about some of the comments made by some of Pete’s teammates. Most of Pete’s friends stonewalled Sokolove, giving the reader an incomplete portrait of the player, buttressed only by testimony from people who Pete let down. Some of those people were significant, such as Dave Parker and Art Shamsky. Pete would say that these were issues that should have been worked out with him and Shamsky, or him and Parker. Sokolove was trying to underline the point that Rose eschewed his real friends to surround himself with the sycophants and yes-men that got him in trouble.

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it always has two sides – and Sokolove wasn’t getting Pete’s side of that pancake. If you looked hard enough into the lives of a lot of people, you can probably find someone who felt let down by a former friend. I don’t think Pete was as bad a guy as he was portrayed in this book.

Sokolove even claimed that Rose as a ballplayer was overvalued by a grateful media. There are also some statistics-crunching baseball fans that came to the same conclusion. See my Pete Rose List Page for a rebuttal. OPS and Total Player Rating don’t tell the whole story. Did Mike Schmidt also overvalue Pete’s contributions to the first World Championship in Phillies history? In the last chapter of the book, Sokolove also states that Pete was plenty good enough to make the Hall of Fame, so it’s possible that he was being jocular in provoking this discussion.

However, Rose won’t be inducted to Cooperstown. Major League Baseball will not let anyone in who has been declared permanently ineligible from baseball. This rule, passed in 1991, has been called the Pete Rose rule, although it was really the embodiment of an unwritten rule already practiced by the stewards of the Hall of Fame. Just look at the current voting by the BBWAA for players suspected of taking steroids.

Baseball has never reinstated a player that has been declared permanently ineligible, and it’s unlikely they will start with Pete Rose. Sokolove’s powerful expose reminds the reader what baseball had on Rose, and why MLB did not want him in the game. His book also offers some balance for a reader looking to construct an accurate biography of Rose, but it is too hard-hitting to be your sole source on Rose.
TOO TATTERED
Great book with a lot of revealing information
I grew up with the Reds and Pete and now I have the chance to know things I never knew before.
What ever Pete did wrong does not change anything about what he did right
I am no Reds fan and was only casually interested in Pete Rose before reading the book.

I thought the author was remarkably evenhanded in writing about Rose. The book is soup-to-nuts, it talks about Rose's parents in great depth. The author did not have access to Rose's children, nor that many teammates from the Reds. But he spoke to just about everybody else.

This book is NOT a hatchet job. Sokolove comes out strongly for Rose's enshrinement in Coopertwon, but wants him banned permanently from the game. He makes a convincing point that the "character" issue that gets cited by Rose's detractors is vague and meaningless and should NOT be used to keep Rose out of Cooperstown.

He does not speculate why Rose seems so obsessed about Coopertwon, though.

He also comes up with some great points that as a player, Rose was quite overrated. But he also gives Rose credit in many ways. Rose was friendly to most sportswriters for selfish purposes but also for other reasons.

Bottom line, Rose comes across as a nuanced character in this book, not a sterotype. That is quite an accomplishment.
You could say the story of Pete Rose is a tragedy. Here was a man who had it all, batting titles, World championships, an MVP award, countless fans and admirers, and of course the seemingly unbreakable hits record. But Pete was banished from the game he loved. Why? Mainly because he felt he was above the rules. And as you'll read in this excellent book, Rose had good reason to think that. Numerous people knew of Rose's gambling addiction, but chose to ignore it.

Sokolove paints a fair, albeit unpretty, picture of Charlie Hustle. Don't let the subtitle fool you, this is no hatchet job. Sokolove talked to many people and gives you a clear view of Rose the player and Rose the man. One was admirable, the other was not. While you see Rose's giving side, you'll also see his ugly side also. Rose had no idea what it meant to be a husband or father. There are at least a couple Pete quotes that will make you wince, facepalm, or both.

The book might be a tad dated (it came out in 1990), but I don't think that takes anything away from it. There's a new introduction for this edition which came out in 2005 after Pete finally came clean and released yet another book "My Prison Without Bars." While his fans might not like the Pete Rose they see in here, other baseball fans and those interested in his rise and fall will find this informative and tough to put down.