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...players are about the hottest numbers in the business: Los Angeles Dodgers Pitchers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale. They are negotiating as an inseparable matched pair for a three-year contract that would total $1,000,000, or $167,000 each per season-$42,000 more than baseball's highest-paid player, Willie Mays, is getting...
...puts fear only into the hearts of teammates who must stand in the way of the batted balls. By week's end, the 1965 World Champions had lost their first six spring-training games, giving up 33 runs and 55 hits. The Dodgers have offered $105,000 to Koufax (who made $70,000 last season) and $95,000 to Drysdale (who made $75,000), are willing to haggle some more on money. On the other two issues, they feel that they cannot afford to yield. No one gets more than a one-year contract in baseball, largely because...
Without the Dodgers, of course, Koufax and Drysdale cannot play baseball -unless they are traded. Nonetheless, the "dynamic duo," as sportswriters like to call them, so far are not budging. In fact, they claim that they are not even training, which means that they could not be ready to play until well past the season opener next month. Last week, in a display designed to prove that failure to eat out of O'Malley's hand does not mean starvation, they signed with Paramount Pictures to work in a movie (Drysdale as a TV commentator, Koufax...
...world series to prove that a great pitcher (Koufax) was better than a good groundskeeper," Veeck said...
...Your choice would be one of the great jokes of history if it were not so frightening. In a world that needs ideas, that needs truly inspired leadership, how can TIME settle for a professional soldier? Better Sandy Koufax...