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Jimmy Snyder (sports commentator)
James George "Jimmy" Snyder, Sr. (September 9, 1918 – April 21, 1996), better known as Jimmy the Greek, was an American sports commentator and Las Vegas bookmaker.
==Life and career==
Snyder was born Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos in Steubenville, Ohio. According to his ''New York Times'' obituary of April 22, 1996, Snyder's family roots were on the island of Chios in the Aegean Sea, in the village of Tholopotami (Θολoποτάμι). As a teenager in Ohio, he became acquainted with bookmakers. Snyder and his wife Joan lost three of their five children to cystic fibrosis.〔(Jimmy the Greek faces his longest odds in a family fight for life ); People, 26 October 1981〕
According to his autobiography ''Jimmy the Greek'', Snyder bet US$10,000 on the 1948 election between Thomas Dewey and Harry S. Truman, getting 17–1 odds for Truman to win. In a later interview he indicated that he knew Truman was going to win because Dewey had a mustache and "American women didn't trust men with a mustache".
He invested money in oil drilling and coal mining, but when those ventures failed, Snyder moved to Las Vegas in 1956 and began a weekly pro-football betting line.
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