Say it ain't so, Joe! How 1919 informs America's entire worldview on gambling


A society’s century-long distrust of sports betting can be traced to the night of 21 September 1919, when the Black Sox went national

America’s century-long distrust of sports betting can be traced to the night of 21 September 1919. That’s when several members of baseball’s Chicago White Sox met with gambling boss Arnold Rothstein in a New York hotel room to throw the following month’s World Series.

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