Word: dodgerism
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Beecher is careful to point out that his report is not a draft dodger's guide to escaping 1-A. As the report says, "The officials of the selective service have decided that education is important and that the pursuit of education constitutes an excellent use and development of the human resources of the nation...
...Verdon [Dec. 24]. How dare he burn his chefs card? His clear duty is to go on working for his President and to make le hot dog; to cover everything with la catchup and forget sauce béchamel and quiches Lorraine for the duration. Quitter, draft dodger, outcast! Let his new place of employment be published far and wide so that all of us patriotic citizens may go there and savor his disgrace...
Things improved a little after the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles: Sandy won eleven games in 1958, and in 1959 he struck out 18 batters in one game to tie a record. But in 1960 Koufax took stock of himself and did not like what he saw. "Suddenly I looked up," he said, "and I had a few grey hairs-and I finally realized that either I was going to be really successful or I was in the wrong profession. Maybe the problem was that I never had a burning ambition to be a baseball player...
...Likes Baseball? To his teammates, even to his few close friends Koufax's aloofness is often downright annoying. "Imagine," says Dodger Catcher John Roseboro, "being goodlooking, well-off, single-and still so cool. I know guys who would be raising all kinds of hell on those stakes." Dodger Vice President Fresco Thompson considers him a heretic. "I don't think he likes baseball," mutters Thompson. "What kind of a line is he drawing anyway-between himself and the world, between himself and the team...
...line of ability, for one thing. Nobody, including Sandy Koufax, had any idea how good he was to become when, as an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Cincinnati, he was spotted playing on a sandlot team. In 1954, Sandy signed a Dodger contract for $6,000 plus a $14,000 bonus. Scout Al Campanis wrote in his memo to Dodger Owner Walter O'Malley: "No. 1, he's a Brooklyn boy. No. 2, he's Jewish." The Dodgers' move to Los Angeles was still four years away. In the meantime, says General Manager...