How Cincinnati Reds great Pete Rose got the nickname Charlie Hustle
But the christening of Rose as "Charlie Hustle" was anything but complimentary. In a spring training game against New York that year, Rose bunted for a single, much to the amusement of Yankee's great Mickey Mantle and teammate Whitey Ford. From O'Brien's book:
How Pete Rose became Charlie Hustle: Two origin stories for one of baseball's greatest nicknames
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MLB's all-time hit leader, Pete Rose, had one of the most well-known baseball nicknames in history. Here's how Rose earned ...
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Countless males in our area who are now in their 60s and 70s grew up wanting to be like Pete Rose. Rose died Monday at the ...
But the christening of Rose as "Charlie Hustle" was anything but complimentary. In a spring training game against New York ...
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