Word: dodgerism
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...everyone's mind. The housewife could see it on almost every price tag in the supermarket, the businessman in the price he pays for raw materials, the consumer in the rising cost of services. In fact, inflation is so much a topic of conversation that when Los Angeles Dodger Pitchers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale signed last week for a new joint contract totaling some $240,000, it was widely -and wryly-noted that their raise exceeded the President's 3.2% anti-inflationary wage guidelines by quite a bit. The increase for the two amounted to about...
...Baseball is an old-fashioned game with old-fashioned traditions," says Walter O'Malley, owner of the World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers - and one of O'Malley's favorite traditions is that players take whatever salary he offers them and say thank you. Between them, Dodger Pitchers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale won 49 games last year, so obviously they were in line for some sort of raise. O'Malley offered Koufax $105,000 (up $35,000) for 1966, Drysdale...
...governor during a revolution in a legendary kingdom around A.D. 1200. With the baby strapped to her back, Grusha embarks on a series of adventures that include crossing a rotting bridge over a 2,000-ft. gorge with soldiery in hot pursuit, a marriage of inconvenience with a draft dodger, and a confrontation several years later with the real mother, who now wants her child back...
Bavasi then called Walter O'Malley in Vero Beach, Fla., and they agreed $210,000 for both was the highest would offer. Dodger officials wished pitchers well in other fields...
...Gossip. The boys will probably reach a compromise with O'Malley eventually, but harder heads than theirs will dictate the terms. The man advising them is J. William Hayes ("As you go through life," warns a weary Dodger official, "beware of a guy who has an initial for his front name"), a Hollywood gent who usually business-manages more professional actors. The background shows. Explaining why Sandy, with his better record, went in with Don on the parlay, J. William smoothly confides that "they figured the way to end all gossip about rivalry between them would...