An Evening with Keith O'Brien

New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Keith O'Brien discusses his 2025 book, Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball. Charlie Hustle was a NY Times best seller and a New Yorker Best Book of the Year winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography. A book signing takes place from 6 - 6:45pm. Mr. O'Brien's presentation begins at 7pm. You may reserve up to 2 free tickets through Weathervane Playhouse's box office at Events for Weathervane Playhouse . Tickets are required for entry. Copies of Charlie Hustle book can be pre-ordered for pick-up at the event from Kicks Mix Bookstore . Additionally, copies of Keith's newest 2026 book, Heartland , can also be pre-ordered. Pete Rose is a legend. He compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago that still stands today. He was a working-class white guy from Cincinnati who made it; less talented than tough, and rough around the edges. He was everything that America wanted and needed him to be, the American dream personified, until he wasn't. In the 1980s, Pete Rose came to be at the center of one of the biggest scandals in baseball history. He kept secrets, ran with bookies, took on massive gambling debts, and he was cast out for betting on baseball and lying about it. Charlie Hustle tells the full story of one of America's most epic tragedies - the rise and fall of Pete Rose. Drawing on firsthand interviews with Rose