Rose combines contrition, defensiveness as he explains gambling addiction - 2004-01-08
Huge six-figure losses, bookies' threats to his family over unsettled debts and his cavalier willingness to jeopardize his place in baseball history marked Pete Rose's long descent into compulsive gambling and banishment from the sport he dominated for a quarter-century, the former Cincinnati Reds star admits in his new autobiography.
In "My Prison Without Bars," which went on sale nationwide today, Rose wavers between contrition and defensiveness in detailing a serious gambling problem that he denied for years.
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