"I cut my teeth on all gaming-related with Scarne in the late '50s and early '60s."

Then, are you the original Greasy John?

Arnold Snyder's forthcoming "Big Book of Blackjack" will have material on Scarne. Suffice it to say that his blackjack strategies were incorrect and he would never admit that the Baldwin Group and then Thorp and his successors were right and that he, John Scarne was wrong.