Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they did get $245,000-$130,000 for Koufax, $115,000 for Drysdale. Then they set about getting themselves in shape to play. Drysdale had been working out, but Koufax had done nothing more strenuous all spring than play a round of golf-and it was a good bet that neither would be ready to pitch nine innings before the season was two weeks old. "Our main concern," said Dodger Manager Walter Alston, "is to make sure they don't overtax their arms and injure them." Naturally, at those prices...
...19th century lottery to boost attendance at the Rio zoo, the animal game is no ordinary numbers racket. It starts off with 25 animals, each of which is assigned four consecutive numbers (from 01-04 for the ostrich to 97-00 for the cow). Odds for a straight animal bet are 20 to 1, but few bettors stop there. They can get 70 to 1 for guessing the last two figures of the winning number, 700 to 1 for the last three figures, 6,000 to 1 for getting all four figures right. They can play their hunches backward...
...winning numbers in dreams, cloud formations and any number of symbolic events. The elephant has come to be associated with death, and whenever there is a fatal traffic accident involving a car with one of the elephant's numbers (45-48) on its license plates, the betting is unusually heavy. A few years ago, when the Rio papers published the picture of a derailed locomotive, so many bet on the last four figures of its registration number that the bicheiros were forced to warn that they could not pay off at the usual odds...
...best bet is up. With great team speed, good defense, some potentially murderous hitting, and pitching that at least shouldn't come down around Shephard's ears, the 1966 edition of Harvard baseball should be a noticeable improvement over last year's performance. But probably won't come close to the miracle workers...
FIRST BASE: A problem spot. Sophomores Bob Welz and Jim Cox are competing for the job, but if neither measures up, O'Donell might shift back into his old position. Welz, if he develops, seems the best bet to be the first baseman by the middle of the season...