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...wing-footed Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. On opening night she danced the dual role of Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, and on the next night performed in the U.S. première of Petipa's Don Quixote-altogether a feat that is roughly comparable to Sandy Koufax pitching both ends of a doubleheader...
...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 70%, despite the fact...
...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...
...even more shocked when Koufax and Drysdale stayed away from spring training and thereby proved to all the world how much the Dodgers needed them: in the preseason Grapefruit League, Los Angeles won only six games, lost twelve, ranked 18th out of 20 teams- five games behind the New York Mets, nine behind the leading Chicago White Sox. O'Malley grudgingly raised his total offer to $210,000. That, he said, was a "final" figure. Koufax and Drysdale looked elsewhere for work. They signed TV and movie contracts, showed up for rehearsals of a thriller called Warning Shot. There...
Last week, with the opening of the 1966 season only 13 days away, O'Malley finally capitulated. The pitchers did not get three-year contracts, but 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...