What Is Pete Rose A Good Role Model

Pete Rose, a voracious competitor, once said “Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.” Regardless of popular belief, Pete Rose is a role model that loved to win. Not only did he love to win but he loved to work and show everyone that he wanted it more than any other guy on the ball field. Pete Rose grew up in Cincinnati Ohio. Harry Rose, also known as "Big Pete", was not only father to Pete Rose but was a boxer, a semipro football player and a hometown hero. Rose credited his father as the model that gave him such a strong competitive nature, an insane desire to win and ultimately credited him for his beliefs and viewpoints whether positive or negative. Although some view Rose as a cheating

Rose was dumbfounded by this and did not understand what all of the commotion was about. This act of gambling was far from foreign to Rose. Harry Rose, Pete’s father, was a long time gambler and would often times take Pete down to the horse races and show Pete how to pick the fastest horse and essentially win. The Rose family saw no wrong in betting (Rose 12). Competitiveness was constantly running through the veins of these men and they took every opportunity they could to win. The winning was not about the money. The winning was for their pride and they most definitely took pride in winning. Pete was raised around gambling and saw betting on his team as another opportunity to win at something else. Rose was so confident in his team’s ability to win that he he would wager large amounts of money to prove how confident he was that he was going to win. Admittedly, Rose was wrong for breaking the rules of baseball; however, his motives as well as the way he was raised should be taken into account when talking about banishing arguably one of the best to play the game of

For years Rose refused to accept responsibility for gambling on his own team. It was not until 2004 when Rose finally took responsibility for his actions. Pete Rose wrote a book called “A Prison Without Bars” that explained his whole life story. In this book, Rose states how sorry he was for his actions and how bad he felt about disrespecting the game that he loved so much (Rose 321). Rose knew that coming clean was the only way he would feel relief from all of the pain he felt for disrespecting the fans, baseball and his hometown. In an interview, Rose quoted a verse from Amazing Grace “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound… that saved a wretch like me… I once was lost but now I am found… I once was blind but now I see.” Rose truly feels remorse for his actions (Rose 322).

Unfortunately, there is nothing he can do now but wait and pray that the judge will be understanding and not only see how great of a baseball player he is but how great of a man he is. The swing of the judge’s gavel cannot be undone but Rose has hope that one day some compassion will come his way and ultimately bring his back to baseball, a place he has missed