| The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed the Game of Basketball Contributor(s): Rosen, Charley (Author) |
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ISBN: 1583225625 ISBN-13: 9781583225622 Publisher: Seven Stories Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2002 Annotation: Now in paperback, "The Wizard of Odds" chronicles the rise and fall of Jack Molinas, the outstanding NBA All-Star who fixed games, cavorted with the Mafia, produced pornographic films, and was eventually murdered. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Sports - Sports & Recreation | Basketball - Biography & Autobiography | Criminals & Outlaws |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2001041088 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.04" W x 9" (1.23 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |