Who Is Meyer Wolfheis In The Great Gatsby

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there is a character called Meyer Wolfsheim, who was a very rich man. He was believed to rig the 1919 World Series by paying off players on the team “‘He’s the man who fixed the 1919 World’s Series back in 1919” (Fitzgerald 73). This man Meyer Wolfsheim who is a fictional character in the story but part of a true occurrence in our history. The 1919 World series will always be tainted with the White Sox being heavily favored over the Cincinnati Reds. They didn’t win the World Series they lost in six games. The 1919 World Series was fixed and is a part of baseball history that will always be tainted. Meyer Wolfsheim may have been a fictional character, but Arnold Rothstein was not (The Black Sox Baseball

‘They not only sold [the series]’ Abe Attell later claimed, ‘but they sold it wherever they could get a buck.’ Bookies had previously had the Sox winning the World Series over the underdog Cincinnati Reds by as much as three-to-one, but the odds shifted after those in the know
Silva 2 began betting heaps of cash on the Reds. As the championship drew near, the streets buzzed with rumors that several White Sox players were in the pocket of high stakes gamblers” (The Black Sox Baseball Scandal, 95 Years Ago).
These White Sox players that ended up accepting the bribes ended up being known as the “Black Sox”. The most noteworthy name out of the group was power hitting “Shoeless” Joe Jackson. Each player was bribed by these high-stakes gamblers to get paid $100,000. The first sign of the fixing of the World Series being true was after game one of the nine game

This was the one of the greatest winning white sox teams ever, and they lost 9-1. Then again they went on to lose the second game game 4-1 “‘Lefty’ Williams the starting pitcher, was not going to be as obvious as Cicotte. After a shaky start he pitched well until the 4th inning, when he walked three and gave up as many runs” (Black Sox Scandal). The players that were bribed were told that the payment was going to be $20,000 per loss until the series was over and the full payment of $100,000 was made. After the first loss and the second loss