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,
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:
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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.
The Hit King never made it to baseball’s Hall of Fame. Did a stubborn, self-inflicted saga need to play out this way?
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Rose's career was marked by 17 All-Star Game nods, three World Series wins and the 1973 World Series MVP title.
Pete Rose spent his final day signing autographs alongside former Cincinnati Reds teammates, celebrating a legacy that will ...
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