He wrote: “I played my first organized sport, on a baseball team whose uniforms were purchased by a local numbers runner named Simpson. There may have been a numbers runner named Simpson. This Simpson lived in the 400 block of M Street NW, four blocks from North Capitol. ADThe numbers game — where bettors picked numbers and posted wagers with middlemen who delivered cash to big operators like Simkins — was a popular pastime all over the city. Wearing a mink-trimmed Persian lamb coat, she testified that Simkins ran his numbers game from her house from 1940 to 1945.

Source: Washington Post February 27, 2021 23:48 UTC