In Popular Culture
- In the book The Great Gatsby the character Meyer Wolfsheim is supposedly the one who fixed the World Series of 1919.
- In the film The Godfather Part II, Hyman Roth states that he has liked baseball since Arnold Rothstein fixed the 1919 World Series.
- Eight members of the 1919 White Sox, most prominently Joe Jackson, make an appearance in the fictional movie Field of Dreams.
- The film Eight Men Out is about the fix itself.
- The television show Boardwalk Empire discusses the event in great detail.
- In Episode 6, Season 5 of Mad Men ("Far Away Places"), Roger Sterling imagines he is watching the 1919 World Series from his bathtub while on an LSD trip.
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