Are girls competing in sports with an intensity their bodies can't withstand? Sokolove takes an urgent look at the dark secret of women's sports, in this rigorously researched expos of the epidemic of crippling injuries suffered by young girls in the name of sport.
A look at the 1979 Crenshaw High School varsity baseball team offers a glimpse of the beginning of Darryl Strawberry's baseball career among the finest collection of high-school baseball talent in history.
Who is Pete Rose? Is he Charlie Hustle, the all-American kid who never grew up, who pushed and stretched himself to get the most out of his limited talent, who would do anything in his power to win and to be a part of the game he loved? Or is he the bloated ex-athlete who broke baseball's one absolute taboo, and who was willing to drag down the ...
For the first time--the truth of how a man who made himself an American hero ended up an American tragedy. Full of hard-hitting, news-making revelations, this investigative biography tells the real story of what happened and why the scandal should have been no surprise to anyone.
Award-winning journalist Michael Sokolove tells the real, hard-hitting story of the life of Pete Rose--from the shattering criminal charges brought against the legend known as Charlie Hustle to the current controversy rocking pro baseball: Rose's possible permanent exclusion from the Hall of Fame.
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