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...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 it is impossible to know how long any player will last. As for the tandem negotiating, Dodgers Owner Walter O'Malley says...
...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 as a detective) through the first few days of the season. There is even talk of a baseball-clinic tour of Japan...
...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...
...referred to Walter O'Malley, owner of the Los Angeles as "the assistant commissioner"; to Willy Mays. San Francisco's star outfielder, as "loving the game so much, he would play for nothing"; and to Leo Durocher, the new manager of the Chicago Cubs, as the man who may fire Cubs owner Phil Wrigley before his contract runs out. "When asked about the interleague competition, now vetoed by the national league, Veeck replied that it was so logical that it couldn't happen...
...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 Buzzie Bavasi, "there were many people of the Jewish faith in Brooklyn." As it turned out, Koufax sold...