The Founding Father of Organized Crime

Softcore History

History, Comedy, Improv

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Kyle Bandujo, podcaster and author of the new sports movie book "Movies With Balls", joins the show to talk about one of the most famous figures in American sports scandal history: Arnold Rothstein. Though he was most famous for allegedly fixing the 1919 World Series (a.k.a. the Black Sox Scandal), this distinction does the man's criminal history a disservice. In truth, Rothstein was so much more. Not only a founding father of American organized crime, Rothstein was also America's first Coke Lord.

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0:36.2	Today on softcore history with our special guest Kyle Bandujo, podcaster and author of the upcoming
0:41.5	book Movies with Balls,
0:43.5	we are talking about one of the most famous American
0:47.0	sports scandal figures ever.
0:49.0	Famed gambler and criminal Arnold Rothstein known best for potentially fixing the
0:56.0	1919 World Series between the Chicago Black Sox and the Cincinnati Reds.
1:01.7	But Arnold Rothstein was so much more
1:05.0	than the 1919 World Series.
1:07.0	In fact, that's the least of his accomplishments.
1:11.0	We are going in to everything Arnold Rothstein, the man who invented
1:16.6	organized crime in the 20th century in America, got into in his life. This man belongs on the Mount Rushmore of Organized Crime
1:26.3	next to Al Capone and anyone else you want to name. Arnold Rothstein is the
1:31.5	goat you have never heard of when it comes to organized crime.
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