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In the pre-online sports betting days, was there a legal way to bet on a game besides going to a casino and visiting the sports book? I remember newspapers publishing odds but still have no idea how people made wagers (other than physically visiting a casino).

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UK used to do this via bookmakers, who ran either high street shops or at the race being bet on.

Football betting had "the pools", betting by post across a number of fixtures. Most famous was run by a retailer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewoods

Yup those odds were for entertainment purposes only wink wink

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