BLACK SOX — Chapter Three: "The Bankroll"
8/21/19
As the regular season winds down, the talk of a World Series fix heats up. Chicago White Sox players meet with two sets of gamblers and name a price to lose the Series. The gamblers weave a complicated web to raise the money before the Series begins.
One group secures the help of the biggest gambler of them all, Arnold Rothstein. On the eve of Game One, the deal is done and everyone waits to see if the players will go through with the fix…
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Special thanks to the SABR Black Sox Scandal Research Committee for assistance in this production.
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