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Pete Rose: An American Dilemma by Kostya Kennedy (2014-03-11)
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Kostya Kennedy: Pete Rose : An American Dilemma (Hardcover); 2014 Edition
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56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports
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Winner of the 2011 CASEY Award from Spitball Magazine Seventy baseball seasons ago, on a May afternoon at Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio lined a hard single to leftfield. It was the quiet beginning to the most resonant baseball achievement of all time. Starting that day, the vaunted Yankee centerfielder kept on hitting-at least one hit in game after game after game. In the summer of 1941, as Nazi forces moved relentlessly across Europe and young American men were drafted by the millions, it seemed only a matter of time before the U.S. went to war. The nation was apprehensive. Yet for two months in that tense summer, America was captivated by DiMaggio's astonishing hitting streak. In 56, Kostya Kennedy tells the remarkable story of how the streak found its way into countless lives, from the Italian kitchens of Newark to the playgrounds of Queens to the San Francisco streets of North Beach; from the Oval Office of FDR to the Upper West Side apartment where Joe's first wife, Dorothy, the movie starlet, was expecting a child. In this crisp, evocative narrative Joe DiMaggio emerges in a previously unseen light, a 26-year-old on the cusp of becoming an icon. He comes alive-a driven ballplayer, a mercurial star and a conflicted husband-as the tension and the scrutiny upon him build with each passing day. DiMaggio's achievement lives on as the greatest of sports records. Alongside the story of DiMaggio's dramatic quest, Kennedy deftly examines the peculiar nature of hitting streaks and with an incisive, modern-day perspective gets inside the number itself, as its sheer improbability heightens both the math and the magic of 56 games in a row.
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Pete Rose: An American Dilemma
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"Kennedy's book on the tarnished and enigmatic Rose is exceptional. Like the best writing about sport--Liebling, Angell--it qualifies as stirring literature. I'd read Kennedy no matter what he writes about." --Richard Ford Pete Rose played baseball with a singular and headfirst abandon that endeared him to fans and peers, even as it riled others--a figure at once magnetic, beloved and polarizing. Rose has more base hits than anyone in history, yet he is not in the Hall of Fame. Twenty-five years ago he was banished from baseball for gambling, then ruled ineligible for Cooperstown; today, the question "Does Pete Rose belong in the Hall of Fame?" has evolved into perhaps the most provocative in sports, a layered, slippery and ever-relevant moral conundrum. How do we evaluate the Hit King now, at a time when steroid cheats appear on the Hall of Fame ballot even as Rose is denied? What do we make of this happily unrepentant gambler, this shameless but beguiling showman whose postbaseball journey has led him to a curious reality show and to the streets of Cooperstown to hawk his signature, his story, himself? Best-selling author Kostya Kennedy delivers an evocative answer in his fascinating re-examination of Pete Rose's life; from his cocky and charismatic early years through his storied playing career to his bitter war against baseball's hierarchy to the man we find today--still incorrigible, still adored by many. Where has his improbable saga landed him in the redefined, post-steroid world? Do we feel any differently about Pete Rose today? Should we?
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He is the author of --named “the best baseball book to appear in many a season,” by Roger Kahn. And, described this way by the novelist Richard Ford: “Like the best writing about sport--Liebling, Angell--it qualifies as stirring literature.” Foreign both books, Kennedy earned the Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year. Each was a New York Times Bestseller.
The Rose book and other pieces and appearances by Kennedy, including a 2014 New York Times Op-Editor piece, have played a significant role in the renewed discussion about Rose’s eligibility for the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Kennedy is currently a contributing editor at Sports Illustrated, where he has reported, written and edited, most recently as an assistant managing editor, since 1994. He is an expert on baseball and hockey and was the magazine’s first regular National Hockey League columnist.
He has written columns and articles for SI.com since its inception. Before joining SI, he was a staff writer at Newsday and contributed to The New York Times and The New Yorker.
Originally from Great Neck, New York, Kennedy graduated with a Bachelor in Philosophy from State University of New York Stony Brook in 1990 and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1992, where he was awarded the distinctive Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship.
Kennedy was instrumental in founding and developing several features at Sports Illustrated including “SI Players” and “SI Adventure” and he served as the top editor of the Sports Illustrated Presents franchise, overseeing special print and digital issues devoted to the commemoration of milestones in sports. A frequent contributor and commentator on sports talk radio as well as on television for Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company and other networks, Kennedy has appeared on “Late Night with Seth Meyers”, “Charlie Rose”, “Morning Joe” and other news entertainment programs. He often has public speaking engagements focusing on issues and ethics in sports.
As of 2015 Kennedy holds a visiting professorship at New York University’s Tisch Institute for Sports Management, Media and Business.
He has previously taught journalism at New York University and Columbia University. Kostya Kennedy is at work on his third book, set to be released by Sports Illustrated Books in 2016.
Sports Illustrated’s Super Bowl Gold: 50 Years of the Big Game (2015) Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: 50 Years of Beautiful (2013) Sports Illustrated’s The Hockey Book (2010).
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56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports
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(56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports ) Author: Kostya Kennedy Mar-2011
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Pete Rose: An American Dilemma
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- Pete Rose: An American Dilemma by Kostya Kennedy (2014-03-11)
- Kostya Kennedy: Pete Rose : An American Dilemma (Hardcover); 2014 Edition
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56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports
