After 14 years of denials, Pete Rose has finally come clean and admitted he bet on baseball while manager of the Cincinnati Reds.
Rose says he was a big-time gambler who started betting regularly on baseball in 1987 but never against the Reds, according to his autobiography, My Prison Without Bars.
In the book, Rose admits that betting became more of a problem when he retired as a player. He details losing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"I didn't realize it at the time, but I was pushing toward disaster," he wrote. "A part of me was still looking for ways to recapture the high I got from winning batting titles and World Series. If I couldn't get the high from playing baseball, then I needed a substitute to keep from feeling depressed. I was driven, in gambling as well as in baseball. Enough was never enough. I had huge appetites, and I was always hungry."
