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“believed that, in time, the sport would grow stronger as a result of his investigation into Pete Rose. The glory of the game would reassert itself, he said. Then”
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
“You build winning teams on character,” Knight said at his opening press conference”
― Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird
― Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird
“Sports wagering is now legal in almost every state. In some cities, baseball fans can place bets on the game at kiosks at the stadium. In most states, people can wager with the flick of their fingers on their phones while they cheer from the cheap seats or from just behind the dugout, and baseball, once opposed to gambling in all its formats,”
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
“And one year later, in May 1981, most Americans never got to see Bird win his first NBA title, as the Celtics defeated the Houston Rockets in six. It was as if that series never happened. Four of the six games aired in the netherworld of tape delay, in the dark, after the nightly news.”
― Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird
― Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird
“Now a player can do it from his couch or have a friend do it for him—easy access that, Vincent predicts, will lead to another massive sports gambling scandal at some point. There’s simply too much money at stake, he said, with more than a”
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
“today’s rules, a legalized gambling platform could have sponsored him. Pete could have played for the Reds and shilled for FanDuel or DraftKings on the side—a reality that would have shocked Bart Giamatti. He just didn’t live long enough to see it.”
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
“league continued to invest in partnerships with legalized gambling platforms—partnerships that started in 2018 in order to give baseball a slice of America’s new, fast-growing sports gambling industry.”
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
“isn’t frowning on the new craze. It’s actively promoting sports gambling with corporate partnerships and in-game graphics broadcast on national television, giving viewers live betting odds of the current batter’s chances of hitting a home run in that very moment. There’s simply too much money in play not to be involved. In 2023, fans in America wagered more than one hundred billion dollars on sports, enough money that they could have pooled their cash to buy the Cincinnati Reds a hundred times over or purchase every single Major League Baseball team—and still have billions of dollars left in their pockets.”
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
“Giamatti held court in New York, comfortable and relaxed on the stage at the Hilton, a professor again, teaching. He opined about the dangers of gambling and sports. He said that a competitor placing bets”
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
“But tape delay remained a problem for the NBA Finals in May 1980, even with Magic leading the Lakers to a championship as a rookie. That month, only 14 out of 200 CBS affiliates chose to air the decisive Game Six live.”
― Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird
― Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird
“Larry came up with his own theory. He believed his father killed himself so that his mother could collect his Social Security check. By this theory, Larry’s father wasn’t crazy, or clouded by alcohol, or haunted by nightmares. He was a stubborn man, making good. If Joey couldn’t pay child support to Georgia, he’d help her by going away.”
― Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird
― Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird
“hundred billion dollars being legally wagered on sports every year. “I think there’s a very high probability of more Pete Roses,” Vincent said in 2023, “and there’s going to be more corruption.”
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
“this new landscape, players still can’t bet on the game—Rule 21(d) remains in effect—and league officials argue that they have more protection against wrongdoing, not less. Legalized gambling platforms can track down to the minute what’s being wagered, where, and on whom.”
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
“If she came off as too weak, she might be denied the trip. If she came off as too strong, too beautiful--or, in her words, 'too fascinating'--she might lose on that count, too.”
― Fly Girls Young Readers’ Edition: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History – The Untold True Stories of Tenacious Women Pilots and Their 1920s and 1930s Air Racing Triumphs
― Fly Girls Young Readers’ Edition: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History – The Untold True Stories of Tenacious Women Pilots and Their 1920s and 1930s Air Racing Triumphs
“on his own games—“covert” and “conspiratorial” bets—was a player with a conflict of interest, more invested in himself than he was in the team, and more beholden to outside forces than any commissioner could tolerate.”
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
― Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
“But to the local kids, maybe the Birds most of all, the hoop was a miracle. It gave them a place to gather and a reason to get out of the house. Sometimes the boys even played there when it snowed. Butch Emmons, who was the oldest of the group by far, would grab a shovel, clear the court, and they’d play in the cold. The”
― Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird
― Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird
