Bob Knight Goes Negative; Baseball Betting: Sports Books
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So what’s a Stanford MBA who spent years as a Wall Street trader and had a seven-figure compensation guarantee doing noodling around with sports statistics?
Joe Peta was plowed down by a New York ambulance at the corner of West Broadway and Park Place. The accident re-arranged his body (12 screws and a huge plate in his leg) and upended his career. Sitting in a wheelchair, weakened, discouraged -- and soon fired -- he returned to his childhood passion and pastime. He fell in love with baseball again.