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The Wizard of Odds
Charley Rosen
其他書名
How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed the Game of Basketball
出版
Seven Stories Press
, 2011-01-04
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Sports
Biography & Autobiography / Criminals & Outlaws
Games & Activities / Gambling / Sports
ISBN
1609800591
9781609800598
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Ip9oRcm8iOMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
In The Wizard of Odds, renowned and best-selling basketball writer Charley Rosen brings us for the first time the full life story of Jack Molinas, one of the greatest basketball players of his era, a man whose gambling addiction and hubris caused his ultimate demise. Drawing on numerous, previously unavailable first-person accounts, including Jack Molinas’s own journal and trial transcripts, Rosen presents the true saga of a man who perhaps better than anyone around him understood the weaknesses of the system in which he lived—so much so that he convinced himself that he could manipulate that system to his advantage with total impunity, in a life’s journey that took him from NBA play to the Mafia and the pornographic film industry, and to an ultimate tragic destiny.