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Re: SoxFan post# 109839

Tuesday, 09/28/2010 9:55:18 PM

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 9:55:18 PM

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Sox, here is another one ..

Another source credits late 1860s Chicago "bounty broker, saloon and gambling-house keeper, eminent politician, and dispenser of cheating privileges..." Michael Cassius McDonald as the originator of the aphorism. According to the book Gem of the Prairie: Chicago Underworld (1940) by Herbert Asbury, when McDonald was equipping his gambling house known as The Store (at Clark and Monroe Streets in Chicago) his partner Harry Lawrence expressed concern over the large number of roulette wheels and faro tables being installed and their ability to get enough players to play the games. McDonald then allegedly said, "Don't worry about that, there's a sucker born every minute.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_minute


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