1910 Philadelphia Caramel "27 Scrappers" (E79) Abe Attell
A caramel card from the year Attell held the featherweight title, the candy-store counterpart to his T218.
- Issue
- 1910 Philadelphia Caramel "27 Scrappers" (E79)
- Year
- 1910
- Variation
- 27 Scrappers
- Subject
- Abe Attell
- Grade
- PSA 4
- Cert #
- 90494658
- Population
- 7 at this grade (per Card Ladder)
1910 Philadelphia Caramel "27 Scrappers" (E79)
A boxing caramel set from Philadelphia whose name promises 27 fighters on 21 cards, six of which pair two boxers. The checklist is a roll call of the era's ring stars: Jack Johnson, James Jeffries, Sam Langford, Stanley Ketchel, Joe Gans and Battling Nelson, and Abe Attell.
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Abe Attell
"The Little Champ," a former world featherweight titleholder, sat at the center of the gamblers' side of the 1919 World Series fix. In the accounts that emerged after the scandal, Attell acted as Arnold Rothstein's go-between: he met with former pitcher "Sleepy" Bill Burns and Billy Maharg, and — whether or not Rothstein ultimately bankrolled the deal — Attell told the players' contacts that the money was coming, then handled (and shorted) payments as the Series went on. The promised bankroll was far larger than what the players actually saw. A Cook County grand jury indicted Attell in the fall of 1920 along with other gamblers and the eight White Sox. He fled toward Canada to avoid process and later fought extradition from New York, arguing in habeas proceedings that he was not the man named in the Illinois indictment. Witness problems and missing evidence helped him; he never stood trial in Chicago for the Series fix. He lived out a long public life afterward in New York business and vaudeville, always shadowed by the scandal he was never convicted for.
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