Louie Jacobs was a New York jewish Gangster and bootleger who got his start running rum with Frank Costello during the depression.He made a lot of money and later parlayed his earnings into the worlds largest sports events and concession stand business,skimming even the 1960's Olympics in Rome.L.Jacons was main player,thanks to his mob connections,for putting lots of cash into major baseball teams in the U.S.Theres even a story that William Louis "Bill" Veeck,Chicagos owner and promoter in Major League Baseball was involved in some business with Jacobs.Rumours are that he had mob connections all around the country,so secretly a lot of sports teams were owned by the mob.If the owner of some team is in financial troubles,Jacobs would let the mob know,and the mob would bail the owner out.Through Jacobs the mob had their part in many sports such as football,boxers,horses,dogs and even golf tournaments.Word got out that if you cooperate with Loui Jacobs your career as a athlete would soar.Rumours are that Jacobs had all of the sport writters in his back pocket so all of the athletes that were mob connected would get big publicity.He'd always get the right fights or be placed on some big name teams.Story goes that by the mid 50's,Jacobs had his won circle of athletes around him and working for him at the same time.A lot of thouse athletes met Frank Costello through Jacobs and enjoyed in their "gifts" that were given by the mob.But not all of the athletes listened to Jacobs,for example Sugar Ray Robinson refused a million bucks to throw a fight with Rocky Graziano.

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