Keith O'Brien on Pete Rose, Shohei Ohtani, and sports betting

Baseline Baseball is joined by New York Times best-selling author Keith O'Brien to discuss his book Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball. Keith talks about growing up a Reds fan in Cincinnati and the complicated legacy of local favorite son Pete Rose, and how he channeled that into his writing the book. The group also discusses Rose's legacy since the rise of sports betting, and just what we've learned since Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara's own gambling scandal a year ago.

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