Title: Abe Attell Description: Abe Attell (Abraham Washington Attell; 1884-1970), American prizefighter, featherweight champion of the world (1903-1912), and infamous for his involvement with gambling and fixing the results of sporting events on behalf of notorious gambler and organized crime boss Arnold Rothstein (1882-1928), particularly the fixing of the 1919 World Series where Attell was the go-between with seven or more White Sox players paid to throw several baseball games in that series; Attell was profiled by Michael Mantell in the 1988 film Eight Men Out; baseball; bribes; bribery; crime bosses; film; fixers; gamblers; gambling; Keywords: motion pictures, movies, organized crime, role models Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1200 x 1729 (2.07 MPixels) (1.44) Print Size: 10.2 x 14.6 cm; 4.0 x 5.8 inches File Size: 5.94 MB (6,231,546 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000095914 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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