The Highest Paid Professional Athletes in 1966

The highest paid professional athletes in 1966 were not the ones you would expect. Think golfers and boxers.

1966 was a watershed year for Muhammad Ali. It was the year that he changed his name from Cassius Clay and became active in the American Muslim movement. It was also the year that he declared as a conscientious objector and refused to be drafted into the military. He was arrested, tried and found guilty of draft evasion and stripped of the heavyweight t…