Basketball scandal book

[Phat Mack]

Somebody posted last winter who was reading a book about the point-shaving scandals of the 50's. Does anyone remember the name of this book?

[Ray Zee]

wizard of odds is one such book

another is a history of baseball gambling and fixing scandals by cotrell

[HDPM]

I posted about Wizard of Odds by Charley (I think) Rosen. z mentioned it above. It is a book about Jack Molinas, who was involved. That was a fun book. The author also wrote another more general one about the college point shaving era I think. A relative of another author who researched Molina's involvement wrote a bad review on Amazon. But I liked the book. I sent a copy to my father who followed sports in those years who liked it a lot. Molinas was a character, of that there can be little doubt. It is also interesting to see the portrayal of Frank Rosenthal in the book if you have followed the Spilotro/Rosenthal stuff or seen Casino. If it's all true a lot of stuff went on in the day.

[Phat Mack]

That's the one. I was told recently that a gambler I had know years ago was involved in those scandals. I had been racking my brain trying to remember the name of that book. An amazon search proved fruitless. Thanks a lot! I plan to read it as soon as I can find it.