F. Scott Fitzgerald stamped T206

[packs]

Quote from F. Scott:

"Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons."

Are we sure he would have even collected?

[btcarfagno]

Originally Posted by packs

Quote from F. Scott:

"Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons."

Are we sure he would have even collected?

I think I read he was a fan as a kid but became disillusioned after the Black Sox scandal. Though that could be an urban legend as well.

Tom C

[Jobu]

I read that as well Tom. Plus, the name of the bad guy behind the scenes in The Great Gatsby, Meyer Wolfsheim, is accepted as an allusion to Arnold Rothstein, a name baseball fans know. From that bastian of accuracy, Wikipedia:

In the novel The Great Gatsby, Meyer Wolfsheim is a Jewish friend and mentor of Gatsby's, described as a gambler who fixed the World Series. Wolfsheim appears only twice in the novel, the second time refusing to attend Gatsby's funeral. He is a clear allusion to Arnold Rothstein.

Fitzgerald was also clearly a sports fanatic:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-foot...ald-1414166403

Originally Posted by btcarfagno

I think I read he was a fan as a kid but became disillusioned after the Black Sox scandal. Though that could be an urban legend as well.

Tom C

[btcarfagno]

From Gatsby:

“Meyer Wolfshiem? No, he’s a gambler.” Gatsby hesitated, then added coolly: “He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919.”

“Fixed the World’s Series?” I repeated.

The idea staggered me. I remembered, of course, that the World’s Series had been fixed in 1919, but if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as a thing that merely HAPPENED, the end of some inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people—with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.

“How did he happen to do that?” I asked after a minute.

“He just saw the opportunity.”

“Why isn’t he in jail?”

“They can’t get him, old sport. He’s a smart man.”

Tom C