“Shoeless” Joe Jackson became the man most closely associated with the 1919 Black Sox Scandal. But the Boston gambler who put the fix in motion — Joseph “Sport” Sullivan — remains largely in the shadows. (OnlyAGameNPR)
On Sept. 18, 1919, gambler Joseph"Sport" Sullivan and White Sox first baseman Chick Gandil met in Room 615 at Hotel Buckminster.
Back then, there was a good chance you would find Sullivan's distinctive figure in the gamblers' section at Fenway Park. And back to the gamblers' section at Fenway, or the one at Boston's other Major League ballpark, Braves Field."In the early 20th century, Boston was considered the hub of baseball betting activity," says Jacob Pomrenke, who chairs the Black Sox Scandal Research Committee for SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research.
But fixing the World Series was something else entirely. They figured it would take some serious cash to get a group of White Sox players on board — $80,000, or the equivalent of $1.2 million in today's money.The notorious New York City mobster often gets credit for pulling off the fix. That's probably because a thinly veiled fictional version of Rothstein, a character named,"Meyer Wolfsheim," appears in"The Great Gatsby.
Talking to the Lowell Sun newspaper, Sullivan vowed to testify. He didn't want to become the scapegoat in the scandal. He told the paper:"I have the whole history of the deal from beginning to end. I will tell the grand jury or any other officials the whole inside story of the frameup."
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