My Prison Without Bars took me through the journey of Rose's life of gambling and how it all began. The story starts with him talking about are hard it was to say goodbye to his children as he was leaving to go to the US Penitentiary for the next five months of his life. I thought the opening chapter to this book was amazing because it gave me a reason to continue reading and to figure out just what happened to this man to make him have to be taken from his family.
The most amazing thing about this book to me was when Rose talked about how his addiction began and at such a young age. Rose talked about going to the horse races as a child with his father and his fathers friends. His love for gambling started one day when his father asked him to go place a bet on a horse. Walking up to the booth, feeling so big and important. The horse that Rose and his father had chosen ended up winning that race and the feeling that it gave Rose was the most amazing thing he had ever felt. That feeling also was what led him to the downfall in his life.
Pete Rose was an amazing baseball player holding more baseball records than any other player in history. But it was his passion and knowledge of baseball mixed with his love of gambling that has had him permanently banned from professionally playing the game ever again. After being caught gambling on baseball games Rose was asked to leave the league and never return.
The interesting thing about this story to me was that it was told by Rose. Since it was from his mouth and in his words it had a way of telling the dark side of his life without making him sound like a complete monster. It was almost a way of him admitting he was wrong and feeling bad about the things he had done. It made it seem very personally and could almost make the reader become emotionally involved in not only the story but the narrator.
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