[OPLINLIST] Keith O'Brien Author Talk

[Kent Daniels]

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Licking County Library is proud to welcome author Keith O'Brien to Weathervane Playhouse<https://weathervaneplayhouse.org/> in Newark, Ohio on Thursday, September 24th from 6-8pm.  Tickets are free of charge but limited to two (2) per guest.  Click HERE<https://weathervaneplayhouse.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket#/events/a0SVX00000QiSOD2A3> to order your tickets.

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.


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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 himself and with his associates, as well as on investigators' reports, FBI and court records, archives, a mountain of press coverage, Keith O’Brien chronicles how Rose fell so far from being America’s “great white hope.” It is Pete Rose as we've never seen him before.

Keith has written four books, been a finalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting, been longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and has contributed to multiple publications over the years.

His newest book, Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird, was released March 2026.

A book signing will take place from 6-6:45 PM. Mr. O'Brien's presentation will begin promptly at 7:00 PM. Books are available for pre-order through Kicks Mix Bookstore and available the night of the event. Click here<https://kicksmixbooks.store/products/charlie-hustle-the-rise-and-fall-of-pete-rose-and-the-last-glory-days-of-baseball-1> to order Charlie Hustle or click here<https://kicksmixbooks.store/products/heartland-a-forgotten-place-an-impossible-dream-and-the-miracle-of-larry-bird?utm_source=copyToPasteBoard&utm_medium=product-links&utm_content=web> to order Heartland.
A limited number of copies will also be available for purchase the night of the event.


Thanks!
Kent


Kent Daniels

Empowered Minds Coordinator

Licking County Library

kdaniels at lickingcountylibrary.org | 740.349.5524

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