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  1.                 v g                                                            PEOPLE, Page 96Calling Off All BetsBy Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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  3.     I know I can't gamble on anything anymore because I can't
  4. control it. I need help." That admission is a surprising
  5. turnaround by PETE ROSE, who in August denied that betting was
  6. a problem or that he needed help of any kind. Why the change?
  7. "I bottomed out by losing my occupation," the former Cincinnati
  8. manager said last week. And when he realized that gambling had
  9. taken baseball -- "something I love very dearly" -- out of his
  10. life, he started seeing a psychiatrist. In the brand-new
  11. biography Pete Rose: My Story, written with Roger Kahn, he
  12. swears, once again, that he never bet on his own sport.
  13.