Originally Posted by
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Flipped and scaled baseball cards first. That is probably what started it all . I was about 10 or 11.
I used to tag along on my fathers bets now and then for a dime or a quarter after that . That was a decent amount back then. My allowance was 50 cents a week . I was 12 I think. Had my 1st local at 15 . A friend and I learned what an "if" bet was and the local was probably in his 20s and dumb. Used to get the Cubs results from their day game from Warner Wolf on the 6 o'clock news if they were home, ( no lights) and always played whoever won in an if win bet for 10 bucks, split between me and my friend, and put it back on Bob Gibson or some high odds team. We probably made 100 bucks that summer between us .We only did it one or two out of 4 home games . Usually when Gibson, Koufax, etc. was also pitching in the if game. We never got greedy and never got caught.
I did watch my dad lose constantly with his guy over time and learned a ton from that. He always had the bad beat. Kubek gets hit in the throat, he had the Yankees. Maz's home run beat him he told me. Namath beat him against the Colts , I watched that, and he said he bet his paycheck on Native Dancer the only time he lost in 22 starts.
Guess you could say I learned what NOT to do which taught me to look for things others might not see.
Especially in horse racing.
The rest as they say, is history.
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