Tag: Major League Baseball

• Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

  

  It’s an epic story. A young man with talent, maybe not as much as some but what he lacks in physical and athletic prowess he makes up with moxie and determination. And like most epics, there’s a rise to the heights and then a fall from grace. It could be a movie. Maybe it will…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  December 31, 2025

  #books, #BookTok, Baseball, Biography, Non-fiction, Sports

  Baseball, Biography, Charlie Hustle, gambling, Keith O’Brien, Major League Baseball, mlb, Pete Rose, Sports

• The Big 50: The Men and Moments That Made the Chicago Cubs

  

           Carrie Muskat, who started covering the Chicago Cubs in 1987, has written The Big 50: The Men and Moments That Made the Chicago Cubs (Triumph Books 2021; $16.95).          “Really there are more than 50 moments because it was hard to limit them so it’s 50 plus,” Muskat tells me in an early morning…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  May 17, 2021

  Chicago, Chicago Cubs, Chicago sports, History

  Carrie Muskat, Chicago, Chicago Cubs, Major League Baseball, Sports, The Big 50, Triumph Books