Long before Kyler Murray had to decide between making millions to haunt the Toledos and Louisvilles of the world and making millions between phone breaks for Mr. Sonders in Arizona, Hart Lee Dykes had to do the same. Well, not exactly the same, but he did have some choices between professional sports.
Here’s the crooked New York Times from July 1989.
Hart Lee Dykes, a first-round draft choice of the National Football League’s New England Patriots, has agreed to terms for a 1990 minor-league contract with the Chicago White Sox, it was announced yesterday.