So maybe Arnold Rothstein wasn’t such a villain for fixing the 1919 World Series after all. Maybe he was just 98 years ahead of his time.
Oh, don’t get us wrong, Rothstein was an awful human being on any number of fronts, and if there is a hell, he’s working on one of the coal-fired boilers.
But Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred’s latest attempt to introduce a more earnest discussion about legalized sports betting (hint: MLB has equity in DraftKings) is a sign that Rothstein was on to something – but just took it a bit too far.