Al Capone The prohibition era was the time of a lot of great mobsters in American history. Al Capone and Johnny Torrio were two of the most important gangsters to make an impact on organized crime in America. The most influential, however, was Al Capone. Al Capone had an influence on organized crime in the 1920’s by taking over Johnny Torrio’s gang, the St. Valentine’s Days Massacre, and by building a criminal empire in Chicago before dying of Syphilis. This symbolic crime figure began his days in Brooklyn, New York where he was born to poor Italian immigrants on January 17, 1899.
The St. Louis Cardinals are one of the best franchises in all of baseball and I have always been a huge fan. The history of the Cardinals is continuous, and spectacular. The list of great baseball players that have come through St. Louis is amazing and the teams are even greater. I consider the Cardinals organization and myself as one. I am privileged to call myself a fan of such a great
It is said that he formalized corruption and many of the men who became prominent leaders in crime, received their start from him. Remus moved to Cincinnati, which is right across the river from Newport. During this time, selling liquor was prohibited in Kentucky; Remus saw this as an opportunity to make money by bootlegging the illegal liquor. Remus was a pharmacist and this allowed him to purchase liquor from the Treasury Department for use in producing medicines, but this liquor was diverted to illegal sales. George Remus soon became known as the “King of Bootleggers.” His bootlegging enterprise was growing fast; he was delivering liquor by the truck loads to Ohio, throughout Kentucky, and all the way to Indiana.
The series against the Cubs would be the first intra-city World Series Championship. The Cubs would have most of the attention because they seemed to be the better team with the better record but, the White Sox ended up winning the series 4 games to 2. In 1917 the White Sox would once again have powerful pitching that would help them win a franchise record 100 games. The White Sox would play the New York Giants in the World Series Championship and win the second and last of the 20th century 4 games to 2. This series was played during World War 1, and prior to the first game at Comiskey Park the White Sox played the Star Spangled Banner to honor the troops.
He quickly found his niche and employment by robbing banks, and almost overnight he became a “Robin Hood” national hero. Even thought people had been killed during these holdups and robberies. Many people across the nation were so fed up with the banks at this time and the loss of their own money a few lives taken was alright by them. The people had felt this gang was stealing from the bank who had originally taken from them. Even the press played him up as a brilliant, daring, likeable individual, basically an equivalent to a “superhero” by taking down banks which had been merciless by forcing debtors to mortgage all that they had.
The side with Castellano’s underboss was more blue-collar, committing crimes of gambling, hijacking, and drugs. The side with Castellano involved with white-collar crime, which involved evading taxes and fraud. Castellano wanted to change the mafia image to businessmen who always got their way, from the band of ruthless killers they were once known as. The move to be more like businessmen did not work at all, and people like John Gotti, Sr. moved the family back. Castellano’s views only lasted for so long until fellow gangsters saw him as weak.
March 10, 2013 James Buckley Jr. Care of Triumph Books 601 S. LaSalle St Suite 500 Chicago, Illinois 60605 Dear James Buckley Jr.: I recently completed your book “Perfect,” and I was very impressed. My father brought it home one night for me to read, and it instantly caught my eye. The cover is very interesting and absorbing. I realized it was an older book due to it saying “The Inside Story of Baseball’s Seventeen Perfect Games,” when there are twenty-three perfect games as of 2013. Also, being a pretty big baseball fan, I recognized Randy Johnson on the cover, and he has been retired since 2009.
Speakeasies were establishments that illegally sold alcohol. This secret of speakeasies made people a lot of money and they became known as bootleggers. Many crime figures began to emerge at this time such as Al Capone and George Anastasia. With organized crime now in the New York area, things started to get chaotic as more gangs and mafias emerged. Many of these groups engaged in illegal activity such as selling drugs, trafficking, gambling, and even murder.
Gatsby's mob life was the result of a sacrifice he had to make. Gatsby joined the mob for money, money he could use to appeal to Daisy. Through various deals described throughout the book, it was apparent that Gatsby had “connections” with some very big people such as Meyer Wolfshiem. Gatsby's mob agenda included the trafficking alcohol by illegal means, “He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter.” (97). Gatsby was not only associated with alcohol sales, but stealing from banks, “‘Hell of a note, isn’t it?
Baseball is one of America’s most treasured sports; as an American, baseball has always interested us. As we were reading the packet containing the possible topics for the national history day fair, baseball stuck out to us. As soon as we both saw baseball, we began to imagine scenes for our documentary. We both play sports and are athletic so we wanted to choose an athletic topic. Baseball strung a chord with us right away.