{"id":62180,"date":"2024-11-12T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=62180"},"modified":"2025-02-13T22:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T03:45:26","slug":"pete-rose","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/pete-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">Pete Rose<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-lecture-date-january-23-2025\">Lecture Date: January 23, 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-john-and-linda-coker-lecture\">The John and Linda Coker Lecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great Lives 2025: Pete Rose\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1051649555?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/o_brien.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"658\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/o_brien.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62158\" style=\"width:276px;height:auto\" title=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/o_brien.jpg 658w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/o_brien-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago that still stands today. He was a working-class white guy from Cincinnati who made it; less talented than tough, and rough around the edges. He was everything that America wanted and needed him to be, the American dream personified, until he wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1980s, Pete Rose came to be at the center of one of the biggest scandals in baseball history. He kept secrets, ran with bookies, took on massive gambling debts, and he was magnificently, publicly cast out for betting on baseball and lying about it. The revelations that followed ruined him, changed life in Cincinnati, and forever altered the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Charlie Hustle<\/em> tells the full story of one of America\u2019s most epic tragedies\u2014the rise and fall of Pete Rose. Drawing on firsthand interviews with Rose himself and with his associates, as well as on investigators\u2019 reports, FBI and court records, archives, and a mountain of press coverage, Keith O\u2019Brien chronicles how Rose fell so far from being America\u2019s \u201cgreat white hope.\u201d It is Pete Rose as we\u2019ve never seen him before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1QycEGEDl0CJC6b0SJxqKIjhZT2c_J6Aa\/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=103238403274382254745&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true\">VIEW PHOTO SLIDESHOW<div class='arrow'><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-speaker-keith-o-brien\">Speaker: Keith O\u2019Brien<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/obrien_pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/obrien_pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62173\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/obrien_pic.jpg 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/obrien_pic-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Keith O\u2019Brien is the <em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of <em>Paradise Falls<\/em>, <em>Fly Girls<\/em>, and <em>Outside Shot<\/em>, a finalist for the PEN\/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting, and an award-winning journalist. O\u2019Brien has written for <em>The New York Times<\/em>, <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, and <em>Politico<\/em>, and his stories have also appeared on National Public Radio and <em>This American Life<\/em>. He lives in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[1261],"class_list":{"0":"post-62180","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-1261","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pete Rose - Great Lives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/pete-rose\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pete Rose\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lecture Date: January 23, 2025 The John and Linda Coker Lecture Pete Rose is a legend. 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