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...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...
...lads did not say thank you; they said no thanks, or rather their lawyer, a hard-case Hollywood type named J. William Hayes said it for them. Hayes informed O'Malley that the two pitchers wanted three-year contracts at $167,000 each per year. O'Malley was shocked...
...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 was talk of a barnstorming tour of Japan...
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...
...think Walter O'Malley and Buzzie Bavasi will go for this sort of thing," Musial said...