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...each stunt has a value assigned to it by the American Water Ski Association. The skier has two passes of twenty seconds each in which to perform as many different tricks as he can. The points are totaled, deductions for bad form are subtracted, and the skier receives a bonus for not falling in either of the two passes. The skier with the highest score wins the event...
...bonus? Well, no, but Arkansas Farmer Winthrop Rockefeller, 51, thought he'd "like to have a little fun -just to see where the farm's payroll goes." So instead of checks or folding money, he personally doled out the regular payroll to 150 of his Winrock farm hands, in the form of 20,000 clinking silver dollars done up in individual pouches. The experiment pleased at least one farm hand. Said he as he hefted home his lode: "A Rockefeller's silver is as good as gold...
...coach. "I can't hit." "Well," said the coach, "maybe you can pitch." In his first two games, Koufax struck out 34 batters, and big-league scouts began pounding on his dormitory door. The Dodgers got there first, with a contract that called for a $14,000 bonus and a salary...
...while it looked like $20,000 too much. His control was atrocious. But because he was a bonus baby, baseball rules prohibited the Dodgers from farming him out for seasoning. So for six years he warmed the bench, pitching only occasionally, compiling a record of 36 wins and 40 losses. Finally, one night in 1960 before a Dodger-Giant game, he buttonholed General Manager Buzzie Bavasi. "I want to pitch," stormed Sandy, "and you guys aren't giving me a chance." Inquired Bavasi: "How can you pitch when you can't get the side out?" Yelled Koufax...
...Finally Realized." A Michigan State graduate, signed by the Red Sox in 1959 for a $20,000 bonus, Radatz sulked at first when he was assigned to the bullpen. "Everybody wants to be a starter," he says. "But I finally realized that the only way I was going to make the majors was to obey orders. If they wanted me to be a starter now, I'd regard it as a demotion. Being a relief man pays good...