Old timers remember when baseball odds listed as

[minet123]

5 1/2-6 1/2
even-6
7 1/2-8 1/2

used to make nuts glad they switch to $100 line
any one still call in and get numbers quoted this way

[Brock Landers]

yep, still that way in some papers

[blackbox]

Yes sir- remember well. gl

[joe blow]

That's how i got my lines,before all the locals went to the pay per head Internet sites

[Kaabee]

my local paper had it that way until this year

[iceminers26]

The one local I have uses lines from our local paper and they're listed that way, not that hard to figure out how to calculate them over though.

[OmgUrMom]

can you explain? i dont qualify as an old timer, those are just over unders or ???

[minet123]

you put a 5 in between
so its
5/1/2-5-6 /1/2
bet 5 to win 5 1/2
bet 6 1/2 to win 5
etc etc

[Domestic]

Shit would of been confusing, glad I'm not an oldie.