There’s a scene in the baseball movie “Eight Men Out” where the World Series-fixing White Sox players were discussing making deals with different bettors and one of them said, “What will they do? Call the cops?” For over a century, sports gambling outside of Las Vegas lurked in the shadows. Every so often, a scandal arose that shocked the country—CCNY basketball point shaving in the 1950s, stars Alex Karras and Paul Hornung suspended for the 1963 NFL season, NBA ref Tim Donaghy in the 2000s, and, of course, Pete Rose in 1989.
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