The NY Times bestselling author’s latest book, “Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose and the Last Glory Days of Baseball,” has been hailed as a masterpiece of sports writing. An award-winning journalist who’s written for the Boston Globe, the Atlantic, and the Washington Post, he covered Manny Chevrolet’s first campaign for mayor of New Orleans in 2002 with an extensive feature in the Times-Picayune. Keith goes way back with the Troubled Nation. Tonight he returns to help the Troubled Men figure out where it all went wrong.

Topics include remote A/C, a shopping list, the Olympics, new sports, naked fencing, doping, javelin catching, tipping, a Trump blunder, judicial term limits, an online beef, a history degree, school sports, Chicago papers, afternoon newspapers, a gluten allergy, Harry Lee, a longshot story, a rockumentary, an electrocution, a first book, a Nell Nolan story, a missing newspaper, a rural basketball powerhouse, “Fly Girls,” early female pilots, Love Canal, the Cincinnati Reds, Ray Fosse, switch hitting, sports parents, Las Vegas, a lifetime ban, Kenny Stabler, a Greek tragedy, online sports betting, and much more.

Intro Music: "Just Keeps Raining" by Styler/Coman

Break Music: "Every Dog Has Its Day" from "Victory Mixture" by Willy DeVille

Outro Music: "Try To See It My Way" from "Hope Is Not For The Weak" by the Geraniums

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