How Norris Got a New Kitchen
Peter Alson's remembrance in Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100 (2023) of his uncle's 1976 scheme to bet on baseball by pitchers' biorhythms, which ended when Norris spent the losses remodeling the Provincetown kitchen.
Peter Alson’s “How Norris Got a New Kitchen” (Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100, pp. 4–5) recalls the summer of 1976, when his uncle bet on major league games according to the pitchers’ biorhythms. Alson, then a college freshman, phoned the bets to Mailer’s bookie. When the losses passed $10,000, Norris spent an equal sum remodeling the Provincetown kitchen, and “the Great Baseball Biorhythms experiment” ended.
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