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Arnold Rothstein

Arnold Rothstein was a New York gambler. He was shot to death over a poker game in Manhatten on November 11, 1928.

Rothstein was the man widely reputed to be the gambler who fixed the 1919 World Series -- the "Black Sox" scandal. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Gatsby takes Nick to lunch. Gatsby talks with a man named Meyer Wolfsheim and later tells Nick, "That's the man who fixed the world series." Wolfsheim is a thinly veiled reference to Arnold Rothstein.

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