Gangster Waxey Gordon Declares Himself Dead Before Riding NYC Subway 1940 Original TYPE I photo Signed Baseball Contracts Jack and Jim

Jack and Jim

This is an outtake from that session showing the Babe sitting with a famed Philadelphia sportswriter

In his senior year

Max Lanier

Gangster Waxey Gordon Declares Himself Dead Before Riding NYC Subway 1940 Original TYPE I photo Signed Baseball Contracts Jack and JimWaxey Gordon(D 1952) was an American gangster who specialized in bootlegging and illegal gambling. An associate of Arnold Rothstein during prohibition he was caught up in a power struggle following Rothstein's death. Fellow Rothstein associates, Charles Luciano and Meyer Lansky, provided authorities with evidence that led to his imprisonment for ten years. Gordon's success later led him to run all of Rothstein's bootlegging on most of the east coast,