<Li> In the novel The Great Gatsby, Meyer Wolfsheim is a Jewish friend and mentor of Jay Gatsby's, described as a gambler who fixed the World Series . The character is commonly assumed to be an allusion to Rothstein . </Li> <Li> Rothstein was portrayed by several actors in films: By Robert Lowery in the 1960, The Rise and Fall of "Legs" Diamond; by David Janssen in the 1961, King of the Roaring 20's - The Story of Arnold Rothstein (aka The Big Bankroll); by Michael Lerner in the 1988 sports drama film Eight Men Out, based on the Black Sox Scandal; and by F. Murray Abraham, in the 1991 crime film Mobsters . </Li> <Li> In The Godfather Part II, Hyman Roth mentions Rothstein as someone who arranged a sport game result . "Roth" was the name that Vito Corleone gave Hyman when he was a young boy as Roth's real surname was difficult to pronounce, after Hyman spoke of his admiration for Rothstein . </Li> <Li> In the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, a fictionalized, i.e., admitting responsibility for the fixed 1919 World Series, IBS difficulties, and food allergy burdened, version of Rothstein is portrayed by Michael Stuhlbarg . </Li>

Who was expected to win the 1919 world series