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Trans sharing WSOP success

By Gary Wise
ESPN.com

Monday, October 5, 2009

Both baseball and poker center around a World Series, were born in America and might be described as hours of boredom interspersed with moments of sheer terror. With those similarities in mind, it shouldn't be shocking to see one of the cycles of the former repeat itself in the latter. At the turn of the last century, baseball's professionals sought respectability. Until they found it, the game was dominated to a surprising extent by the children of immigrants of Italian descent -- poor blue-c ...

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