Are you thinking of Abe Rothstein?
Brad
> There is a organized crime / gambler / bookie
type
> figure in the novel that Fitzgerald largely based,
it
> is said, on the real-life figure of the man
(whose
> name I also can't remember) who supposedly
organized
> the throwing of the World Series by Shoeless
Joe
> Jackson, et al. (as portrayed in the film Eight
Men
> Out).
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