In his book The Big Bankroll: The Life and Times of Arnold Rothstein, Leo Katcher says, “rom the beginning, there was something disturbing about Arnold… He wasn’t gay, outgoing, a child of laughter… He was a baby that did not laugh, an infant who looked out at the world through great brown eyes… never sparkled with kindness.” While still a child, Rothstein began to indulge in gambling, but no matter how often his father scolded him for shooting dice, Rothstein would not stop. So why would Rothstein do something like fix the World Series, something he didn’t think was possible? To understand that, you have to understand the man who was Arnold Rothstein. The why, though, focuses on just who Rothstein was – a man that never made a bet he knew he would lose money on. The question does remain, though: did he do it? Well, that depends on who you ask. Was it wrong and twisted, but brilliant? Absolutely. Was it audacious of Rothstein to fix the World Series? Of course.
If anything can be said of Rothstein, though, it’s that he never missed a chance to place a good bet.
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Or did Rothstein fix the 1919 World Series? As many arguments for the Rothstein fix can be made against it the eight players behind the fix and the actual throwing of the series remain a half-solved mystery. Everyone knows he fixed (set up who would win the games before they were played) the outcome of the 1919 World Series, when the Chicago White Sox played the Cincinnati Reds the White Sox – later nicknamed the Black Sox – threw the World Series and lost, and eight of their players were forever banned from the sport of baseball. It exists as an anathema, one of the ultimate curse words. Anyone who is a true fan of baseball knows the name Arnold Rothstein.
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