Is Pete Rose’s new book a hit? You bet!
Fans went to Big Apple bookstores to buy the disgraced baseball legend’s new autobiography, in which he finally admits to betting on Cincinnati Reds games when he managed the team in the late 1980s.
At the Barnes & Noble on Fifth Avenue, Rose’s “My Prison Without Bars” was flying off the shelves.
“I want to know the real story about his gambling on baseball,” Ed Kopera, a Manhattan bond trader, said after scooping up the book.
In the book, Rose, 62, said he hopes his mea culpa will end his ban from baseball and pave the way for his induction into the Hall of Fame.
Rose admits to wagering hundreds of thousands on sports and tens of thousands on baseball.
Chris Chierchia said he hopes Rose’s confession closes the book on the gambling scandal.
“What he did really tarnished the image of the sport. But I’d like to know why he’s first admitting it now after 14 years of having denied it.”