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Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're talking with Keith O'Brien.

Keith is a journalist and New York Times best-selling author. He's written for New York Times Magazine,

Washington Post, Politico, and has written four works of nonfiction.

His latest is the biography, Charlie Hustle, The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose and the Last Glory

Days of baseball.

The filmmaker Ken Byrne says of Keith's book, A Dazzling, Soaring Accomplishment, I read and loved

the book.

And for the audience, even if you're not following sports, you don't even know who Pete Rose is, you will love this story,

just to give a couple reference points for readers. It has elements of Cinderella Man, the movie

with Russell Crow. It has elements of The Natural, the book and then film with Robert Redford.

It has elements of the Andre Agassi biography open, which is a great biography, but this is better.

It's just a terrific, terrific book. And of course, Keith, it's incredibly timely to have you here,

given the breaking news on Otani. You have just spent

the last couple of years steeped in illegal baseball gambling by players, and that is the national

story of the day as well. So we'll get into that, but of course, first we'll get into a cocktail.

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