![]() He would remark years later that the revelation of the conspiracy that had thrown the series produced a profound change in his perspective about the world it taught him never to trust in first appearances.”Ĭonspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue ![]() Army named Dwight Eisenhower eagerly followed the game as the scores came in via telegram, and like everyone else, never suspected a thing. In real life, the 1919 World Series was fixed not by Wolfsheim, but with great skill and audacity by Arnold Rothstein, a Jewish gangster. But “if I had thought of it at all,” he says, “I would have thought of it as a thing that merely happened, the end of some inevitable chain.” It was unbelievable to him then, as it is to us now, that a single person could have been responsible for changing the outcome of an event watched by some fifty million people. Of course, Carraway knew the series had been thrown. ![]() ![]() The idea staggers Gatsby’s idealistic young friend. “There is a moment in The Great Gatsby when Jay Gatsby introduces Nick Carraway to Meyer Wolfsheim, mentioning offhandedly that he is the man who fixed the 1919 World Series. ![]()
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