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Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series

Published on January 24, 2012 By baseball

Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby’s Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Rothstein was much more—and less—than a fixer [...]