How Cincinnati Reds great Pete Rose got the nickname Charlie Hustle
But the christening of Rose as "Charlie Hustle" was anything but complimentary. In a spring training game against New York that year, Rose bunted for a single, much to the amusement of Yankee's great Mickey Mantle and teammate Whitey Ford. From O'Brien's book:
How Pete Rose became Charlie Hustle: Two origin stories for one of baseball's greatest nicknames
Pete Rose, one of the greatest players and most complicated figures in baseball history, has died at age 83. Rose is Major League Baseball's all-time hit king, though never was inducted into the Hall of Fame because he was found to have bet on baseball,
Here is a look back at when Pete Rose, baseball’s all-time hit leader, visited the Royals as a free agent in the 1970s ...
A baseball savant, a gambling addict, a corrupted individual — Rose contained multitudes. But no one loved the game — or ...
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CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Since the announcement of Pete Rose's passing, tributes and memories have been pouring in. If you've been ...
The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball" by Keith O'Brien, one of the first links to Rose and "hustle" in print came from Earl Lawson, a sports reporter for the Cincinnati ...
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Months before his death, Rose’s past was examined in the HBO Max docuseries Charlie Hustle & The Matter of Pete Rose.
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