Pegasus Books has won the rights to publish David Bockino’s Over/Under: An Unexpected History of Sports Betting, which seeks to change the conversation around the fast-growing and controversial gambling industry. In the forthcoming book, Bockino will advance the theory that gambling has served as the main catalyst for the multi-billion-dollar professional sports industry as he takes readers along a rollicking journey through the shadowy gambling halls of 19th century New York, the glitz and glamour of Churchill Downs in the 1920s, the twinkling lights of Las Vegas casinos in the 1970s, the makeshift offices of offshore Caribbean sportsbooks in the 1990s, and beyond.
