Show your cards of members of the "Black Sox" team and/or related characters

[judsonhamlin]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

Here are a few items....

I kept the white border tobacco cards in the box, since they seem much maligned of late.

5 of the W514s, Sleepy Burns ZeeNut, an assortment of Abe Attell cards, and do any of you recognize those round things at the bottom of the scan?

Just looking at this thread now, as I am reading David Pietrusza's book, Rothstein, and those are chips from Arnold Rothstein's Saratoga Springs casino. Rothstein was the mind and bank behind the fix, among his other "pursuits"

[FrankWakefield]

Judson, you are right. The three poker chips are from the Brook Club, Arnold Rothstein's club. That's a great book, tremendous insight into what happened, much more than from anything else I ever read about 1919. What seems likely to me is that Mr. Rothstein didn't leave anything to chance, he had 2 separate fixes in on the World Series, each independent and unknown to the other. All he needed was for one to work. I think both worked to some extent.

In Mr. Pietrusza's book I think he has a photograph that shows a poker chip or two, just like these.


And that's one fine Attell signature. I've never seen one of those. Impressive.