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Steve_ Shaffer

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"Gangster Golf"- Green Hills GC(White) in Birdsboro, PA
« on: November 15, 2011, 03:01:45 PM »
For those fans of HBO's Boardwalk Empire, the name of Max Hassel,the "Beer Baron of Berks County,"  has been mentioned in connection with the bootlegging activities of Atlantic City's boss, Nukey Thompson, and his cohorts Meyer Lansky(the model for Hyman Roth in Godfather2) and Waxey Gordon. Hassel was a golfer and was turned down for membership at the nearby "historically Jewish" Berkleigh CC. So he built Green Hills:

Here's the course history: http://golfgreenhills.com/index_files/Page517.htm

Here's Hassel: http://www.berkshistory.org/articles/hassel.html

Here's Gordon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waxey_Gordon

Here's Lansky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lansky

I think I'll take a ride to Reading and play there soon.

Did Al Capone or Lucky Luciano play golf?

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Steve_ Shaffer

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Re: "Gangster Golf"- Green Hills GC(White) in Birdsboro, PA
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2011, 03:19:16 PM »
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JMEvensky

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Re: "Gangster Golf"- Green Hills GC(White) in Birdsboro, PA
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2011, 03:22:21 PM »
Wasn't it Capone who lost a bet to Titanic Thompson about whether TT could drive a ball across some lake?
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Steve_ Shaffer

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Re: "Gangster Golf"- Green Hills GC(White) in Birdsboro, PA
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2011, 05:31:26 PM »
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Tim Martin

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Re: "Gangster Golf"- Green Hills GC(White) in Birdsboro, PA
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2011, 08:28:03 PM »
Steve-Good stuff. Anybody notice how many of the Sopranos character actors are popping up on Boardwalk Empire.
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Mark McKeever

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Re: "Gangster Golf"- Green Hills GC(White) in Birdsboro, PA
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2011, 09:28:47 PM »
Good find Steve.  I may have to come check it out also.

Mark
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Joe Bausch

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Re: "Gangster Golf"- Green Hills GC(White) in Birdsboro, PA
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2011, 09:38:19 PM »
Where is Cirba when you need him?!  He used to live in Birdsboro.
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Re: "Gangster Golf"- Green Hills GC(White) in Birdsboro, PA
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2011, 09:51:55 PM »
Mark,Joe


I'm thinking of driving up on Sunday. Interested?
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Steve_ Shaffer

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Re: "Gangster Golf"- Green Hills GC(White) in Birdsboro, PA
« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2011, 10:33:00 AM »
Apparently, Hassel's name has not been mentioned  in the HBO series...yet:

http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=345938
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