Pete Rose by Kostya Kennedy
Kennedy's book on the tarnished and enigmatic Rose is exceptional. Like the best writing about sport--Liebling, Angell--it qualifies as stirring literature. I'd read Kennedy no matter what he writes about. --Richard FordPete 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 baseball 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 postbaseball journey has led him to a curious reality show and to the streets of Cooperstown to hawk his signature, his story, himself? Best-selling author Kostya Kennedy delivers an evocative answer in his fascinating re-examination 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?
56: Joe DiMaggio and the Final Magic Number in Sports and Pete Rose: An American Dilemma are both written by KOSTYA KENNEDY. Both books were New York Times bestsellers and won the Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year in their respective years. He was a senior writer and assistant managing editor at Sports Illustrated before joining Time Inc. as an editorial director. Kennedy is a regular on-air pundit for the MLB Network, MSNBC, and other news organizations. He is a professor at the Tisch Center for Sports Management, Media, and Business at New York University and has previously taught journalism at NYU and Columbia University. He has edited a number of books, including The Hockey Book and Super Bowl Gold: 50 Years of the Big Game, both published in 2015.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781618930965 |
| ISBN 10 | 1618930966 |
| Title | Pete Rose |
| Author | Kostya Kennedy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Time Inc Home Entertaiment |
| Year published | 2014-03-11 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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