We Were Wiseguys and Didn’t Know It by Scott Schettler presents a rare and unprecedented history of the early days of “old Las Vegas” and the sports betting luminaries who set the standards and culture in the evolution of sports betting in Las Vegas. This is not a dry history lesson, but rather author Schettler has drawn multiple portraits of key players who shaped the framework and foundation of one of Las Vegas’s biggest draws. Schettler has set the record straight about what really happened in the glory days of Las Vegas sports betting, and he has done so not as an academic, but as an insider. Personal experience and hands on accounts tell the stories about a time that will never come again, and of a place even Hollywood could not reproduce. Written in easy and accessible prose, We Were Wiseguys and Didn’t Know It will educate and entertain, while it serves as witness to little known (if shadowy) characters of Las Vegas gambling history.
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Great book by a real Las Vegas bookmaker, visited the Stardust many times during that era and it was great reading and memories.
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Author Scott Schettler may not be a true wordsmith, but he doesn't have to be with this book. We Were Wiseguys... tells the true history of the Las Vegas Sports Gambling scene as only someone who experienced it first hand can. It records the glory days of the sports book industry prior to the invasion of the corporate suits that now rule the Strip. Schettler ran America's premiere sportsbook, the Stardust Race & Sports Book, in the 1980s when he and his cronies set the line everyone used - from other Las Vegas Sports Book to the underground, illegal bookies spread out across the nation. Filled with a cast of true characters and anecdotes, this book takes the reader to another time and place - a better time and place - when "wiseguys" ran Vegas and ran it right.
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