Arnold Rothstein's Murder Is Still Unsolved Nearly A Century Later
Arnold Rothstein was born January 17, 1882, on Manhattan’s East Side to a Jewish middle-class family, per Biography. But he went his own way, drawn to the easy money and thrill of gambling. By age 20, he already had his own casino and soon branched out into legitimate ventures, such as real estate, as well as nefarious businesses like bootlegging, narcotics, and banking for the New York underworld, helping them expand internationally (via History).
Rothstein’s most infamous handiwork — for which he was never convicted — was fixing the 1919 World Series between the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox, per Biography. In what would become known as the Black Sox Scandal, one of Rothstein’s associates paid off several White Sox players to throw the series, which led to several changes in Major League Baseball, including creating the position of commissioner. As great a gambler as Arnold Rothstein had become, like all gamblers, he ran into a losing streak, and it was the most likely cause of his demise.
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