“He was in trouble from the very beginning of his career. Look at photographs of him as a horse-faced teenager in chess-player spectacles and you’d think butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth. But at 15 he was already being escorted out of a national tournament in Detroit—by uniformed cops, is how he likes to tell it—for trying to lay a bet of $500 on himself. First lesson if you’re going to be a sportsman and a gambler—don’t mistake the head of the association for your bookmaker”