Eight Men Out: The Black Sox And The 1919 World Series - Plot & Excerpts
In less than an hour, he was on a train, en route for New York. He wanted to be where the power was. While on the train, he picked up a New York newspaper and was staggered to read Abe Attell's statement implicating Arnold Rothstein as the father of the whole plot. If Attell could play this kind of a game, why not Sullivan? He checked into the Hotel Ansonia and presented himself at Lindy's restaurant. Twenty minutes after his arrival, a reporter was at his table, asking him questions. Sullivan grimaced in artificial anger. "They've indicted me and made me a goat, and I'm not going to stand for it. I know the whole history of the deal from beginning to end. I know the big man whose money it was that paid off the White Sox players— and I'm going to name him!" He was ready to admit—proudly, in fact—that he'd made a bundle on the Series. "But there's no crime in that, is there? I've been instructed by my lawyer in Boston, William J. Kelly, to go to Chicago, if need be, to clear my name." Boston papers, meanwhile, had elaborated.
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