Noted Baseball Historian David Pietrusza Available to Discuss Pete Rose Case and History of Baseball Gambling

Noted Baseball Historian David Pietrusza Available to Discuss Pete Rose Case and History of Baseball Gambling including Black Sox, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Arnold Rothstein

(PRWEB) January 9, 2004 --Award-winning baseball historian David Pietrusza is available for media (radio, TV, print)interviews regarding the breaking Pete Rose gambling admission story as well as on the broader topic of gambling in baseball.

Pietrusza brings a unique, articulate, knowledgeable voice to the discussion. His most recent book, Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, is a compelling and vivid biography of gambler Arnold Rothstein. Pietruszas earlier work, Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, chronicles the career of baseballs first commissioner, the man who cleansed baseball of its gambling scandals.

The Washington Post calls Rothstein: "a morsel worth chewing over during the long, dark months between seasons. . . . engaging . . ."

Pietrusza can discuss such topics as:

·   The Pete Rose case, his banishment, and potential re-instatement.
·   The Black Sox Scandal, including Rothstein, Landis, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and Buck Weaver.
·   Do Pete Rose and Joe Jackson belong in Cooperstowns Baseball Hall of Fame?
·   The Shufflin Phil Douglas gambling scandal.
·   The Cozy Dolan-Jimmy ODonnell gambling scandal.
·   First baseman Prince Hal" Chase-baseballs crookedest the player.
·   The 1877 Louisville Grays gambling scandal-it almost wrecked baseball.

Pietrusza is former co-editor of Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball and president of the Society of American Baseball Research.

Author David Pietrusza has appeared on such national outlets as NPR, ESPN Classic, ABC, ESPN-2, ESPN-Radio, and The Tim McCarver Show. He is available for interviews by contacting: webmaster@davidpietrusza.com.

To learn more visit: www.davidpietrusza.com.
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