Summary of Kostya Kennedy's Pete Rose

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 At the center of Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, diagonally across from the old Cooperstown Diner, sits one of the village’s numerous baseball merchandise and memorabilia shops: Safe At Home Ballpark Collectibles. Here you can purchase all manner of items invoking baseball’s past and present.
#2 Rose still attracts a large following, and generates more conversation than other baseball greats. He has not been a constant fixture, however. In recent years, he has been more impatient and irked by the lack of progress made toward reinstatement, and has decided to come back up this year.
#3 Rose is a legend in his own town, and has become a sort of legend in baseball. He is not avuncular, and he is not grandfatherly. He is genuine and to admire, and there is a sense of mystery about him.
#4 The induction weekend in Cooperstown remains largely the same, with fans being welcome to come and get signatures from the many baseball greats.

Sujets

• Sport
• Baseball
• Sports collectifs
• Sports
• Béisbol
• General officer
• Recreation
• General

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 03 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669398615
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Kostya Kennedy's Pete Rose
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

At the center of Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, diagonally across from the old Cooperstown Diner, sits one of the village’s numerous baseball merchandise and memorabilia shops: Safe At Home Ballpark Collectibles. Here you can purchase all manner of items invoking baseball’s past and present.

#2

Rose still attracts a large following, and generates more conversation than other baseball greats. He has not been a constant fixture, however. In recent years, he has been more impatient and irked by the lack of progress made toward reinstatement, and has decided to come back up this year.

#3

Rose is a legend in his own town, and has become a sort of legend in baseball. He is not avuncular, and he is not grandfatherly. He is genuine and to admire, and there is a sense of mystery about him.

#4

The induction weekend in Cooperstown remains largely the same, with fans being welcome to come and get signatures from the many baseball greats.

#5

Rose hears a lot of ballpark talk in Cooperstown, and is often referred to as Pete. He is known for his loyalty to his hometown, and many fans shout Cincinnati, baby! West Side! when they see him.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The Anderson Ferry in Cincinnati was used by settlers to cross the Ohio River. It was powered by long poles and pulleys, and horses were later used to power it. The ferry was used by Native Americans to cross the river, and by white men to cross it and hunt.

#2

The Cincinnati waterfront is the source of the city’s birth and life, and it has a hard-earned history and legends besides. When those first settlers came to Cincinnati from Limestone, Kentucky, they came not to find fortune but to take the land from the natives and live.

#3

The stories in Cincinnati all seem to involve the river: the floods of 1883 and 1907, and then the truly great, or truly awful, flood of 1937. LaVerne Rose, Pete’s mother, caught a fish that day that was worth eating.

#4

Harry was a champion athlete in his youth, and he was extremely tough. He never smoked or drank alcohol, and he had a narrow definition of right and wrong. He was always measured and reserved, while LaVerne was sassy, plucky, and coarse.

#5

Harry, or Big Pete as he would be known around the football field, worked at the Fifth Third Bank downtown. He would sprint up the steep incline of Cathcart Street and make the sharp right turn down the length of raggedy Braddock to get home.

#6

When it came to sports, Harry was very critical of his son. He felt that Pete should have tried to make a play on the popup that just barely landed into the grandstand, and that he should have backed up first base properly in the third inning.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

Little Pete played football at Western Hills High, and he was also a switch hitter on the baseball team. He was a gritty halfback who made the runs that won the games.

#2

Pete was not fast or strong, and he was tiny, but if you were choosing up sides for a baseball game, you’d pick Pete first. He was passionate about baseball, and he had scrapes on his arms from playing since he was eight years old.

#3

Pete loved to play ball, and he would go to the river to play whenever he couldn’t find a game. He was always alone, though, because Slick and Bernie preferred to play rubberball.

#4

The Anderson Ferry neighborhood was a tight-knit community where everyone knew everyone else. The fathers there preached that you should stand by what you did or said, even if it meant suffering for it.

#5

The residents of the West Side believed in the life they had, and they were proud of it. They were also extremely wary of outsiders who wanted to change things. They believed they could survive any situation, and that if they did, they would make it in the manner of this community by these same bare-knuckled rules.

#6

Pete was always able to find his way to the river banks to play baseball with his friends. He was eventually signed by the Reds, and after a season in which he hit. 331, he was called up to the big leagues.

#7

Pete was a huge baseball fan, and he always wanted to play baseball. He would wake up Dave and Staaby, and they would all drive down to River Road and park in the players’ lot.
Insights from Chapter 4

#1

In 2012, Rose was having a breakfast at a diner in Cooperstown with his girlfriend Kiana Kim and her two children. They were filming an episode of their reality show, which was about their life together.