While with the college baseball team, Koufax began to attract the attention of baseball scouts. Bill Zinser, a scout for the Brooklyn Dodgers, sent the Dodgers front office a glowing report that was apparently filed and forgotten.Koufax and Linn, pp. 44–45; Leavy, pp. 50. Gene Bonnibeau, a scout for the New York Giants, found out about Koufax through a story in one of the Cincinnati newspapers and invited him to try out for the team at the Polo Grounds after the end of his freshman year. The work out did not go well for the nervous Koufax and he never heard from the Giants again.Koufax and Linn, pp. 46-48; Leavy, pp. 52.
