History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who Fixed the 1919 World Series, an underWorld genius.
He lives in upstate New York..
Pietrusza\'s most recent book, Ted Williams: My Life in Pictures , was written with Ted Williams.
He was an editor of Total Baseball , the Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball.
His Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis captured the 1998 CASEY Award.
About the Author: David Pietrusza has edited over three dozen books. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs are featured.
Finally unraveling the mystery of Rothstein\'s November 1928 Murder in a Times Square hotel room, David Pietrusza has cemented The Big Bankroll\'s place among the most influential and fascinating legendary American criminals.
Among his monikers were "The Big Bankroll," "The Brain," and "The Man Uptown." This vivid account of Rothstein\'s Life is also the story of con artists, crooked cops, politicians, gang lords, newsmen, speakeasy owners, gamblers and the like.
Arnold Rothstein was a loan shark, pool shark, bookmaker, thief, fence of stolen property, political fixer, Wall Street swindler, labor racketeer, rumrunner, and mastermind of the modern drug trade.
Featuring Jazz Age Broadway with its thugs, speakeasies, showgirls, political movers and shakers, and stars of the Golden Age of Sports, this is a biography of the man who dominated an age.
He was everything that made 1920s Manhattan roar.
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 of baseball games.
History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who Fixed the 1919 World Series, an underWorld genius
