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Summary: Pete Rose is white trash
Review: Pete Rose is white trash, that is what is comes down to.Pete Rose is a real jerk. The guy could play baseball, but that's it. As a person, he is a jerk. As least he will never get into the baseball hall of fame. If Pete Rose got into that sacred place, it would be a shame.
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Summary: Pete Rose is white trash
Review: Pete Rose is white trash, that is what is comes down to. Pete Rose is a real jerk. The guy could play baseball, but that's it. As a person, he is a jerk. As least he will never get into the baseball hall of fame. If Pete Rose got into that sacred place, it would be a shame.
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Summary: An Excellent Study of the Enigmatic Pete Rose
Review: Sokolove's book is truly an excellent read. Although the title gives the connotation that the book is going to be a hatchet job on Pete Rose, the book is actually carefully researched and well written. I have been a Pete Rose fan for most of my life. I admired his determination and ability to play each game as though it were the seventh game of the World Series. (If we only had players like that today . . .) Sokolove does a great job at capturing the qualities that made him one of baseball's greatest players. However, Pete Rose was also a shady character who loved having an entourage perform errands for him and tell him how great he was. Pete Rose, as a beloved baseball star, felt that he was above the rest of society and eventually this caught up to him in 1989-1990. Sokolove delves deeply into the character flaws of Rose that ultimately led to his exile from baseball and imprisonment for tax fraud. What is particularly interesting about Sokolove's book is how he deals with the careful way Rose constructed his own mythology by using the press to his advantage. In sum, this book is the story of a great player and flawed personality who learned (I hope) the hard way that even if you have 4256 hits in Major League Baseball, you can still end up like Oedipus in Colonus.
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Summary: Very Well Balanced Informative Biography
Review: This is a well written, thoroughly researched biography. A great many former teammates and friends of Pete Rose were interviewed for the book. He is portrayed in both his positive and negative aspects. The conclusions drawn at the end seem very solid and built on a good foundation.I would recommend this book to any base ball fan and especially and Cincinnati Reds fan. I learned a good amount not only about Pete Rose but also about baseball during the 1960's - 1980's and the social history of the city of Cincinnati. While the book may seem like an attack on Rose at first glance it really is probably one of the most well balanced biographys I've ever read. Probably the most realistic book about Rose available.
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