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Can I get a Sport Scandal by a Mob Boss?

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Welcome to True Crime to Go. I'm John. Here's always with Jamie. How's life?

Things are good, man. Things are rolling. True Crimecast continues to be on the rise and loving these true crime to go episodes.

Got some big things on the horizon that we're not able to share right now, but boy, I'm excited.

Also excited about this case, Jamie. You did the research once you get us rolling.

Absolutely. We're going to talk about Mob Boss Arnold Rothstein.

Rothstein was born January 17th of 1882 to a very strict Jewish family. He had two older brothers.

One became a rabbi and the other one was just one of those does everything right kids.

Everybody loves him and Arnold was always really jealous and often ended up acting out because of it.

He was a really intelligent kid. He didn't do well in school. We've talked about that before on most of our cases.

We have these highly intelligent people that don't have discipline or interest to do well in school. He was especially skilled in mathematics.

Gambling became his young issue even as a kid shooting dice in the streets became his favorite pastime and his gambling addiction only escalated despite his father's attempts to stop it.

He would eventually get caught up into casino games, horse racing, poker and even allegedly fixing baseball games.

Now that would be kind of the main point of where we're going. I believe when he was indicted but never convicted for fixing the 1919 World Series.

Jamie, I know a little bit about this. This was when he, I guess the Chicago White Socks are involved.

And there's some evidence to say that he did fix this game and some that he didn't. So I'm sure you've researched this a lot.

I actually wrote a research paper about this in college and it's the main reason I brought up this episode.

But yeah, the 1919 World Series, the Chicago White Socks, Cincinnati Reds.

The White Socks were vastly the superior team and it's alleged though some people will say he had nothing to do with it that Rothstein paid money to have the White Socks lose so that he could bet on the Reds.

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