The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed the Game of Basketball
by Charley Rosen
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Charley Rosen is the author of 11 books, including "More Than a Game" with Phil Jackson, "Scandals of '51: How the Gamblers Almost Killed College Basketball" & the novels "Barney Polan's Game", "The Cockroach Basketball League" & "The House of Moses All-Stars". He lives in Accord, N.Y., with his wife, Daia Gerson. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 796.323 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Sports Ball sports Ball and net sports Basketball
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- GV884 .M63 .R67 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Sports Ball games: Baseball, football, golf, etc.
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