The Gambler and the Bug Boy: 1939 Los Angeles and the Untold Story of a Horse Racing Fix

by JohnChristgau (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $11.71

  Bernard Big Mooney, LA bookmaker threatens jockeys with death if they didn't pull their horses. His unwilling partner is Albert Siler, a callow, eighteen-year-old apprentice rider from eastern Oregon. This book tells how Big Mooney manipulated this rider and how Siler tried to escape the gambler's criminal grip without ruining his career.