Author : Charley Rosen
Release : 2002-12-03
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 622/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Wizard of Odds by : Charley Rosen
Download or read book The Wizard of Odds written by Charley Rosen. This book was released on 2002-12-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.