Now That He’s in NBA, He Can Switch to Limousines
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Marty Conlon of the Milwaukee Bucks, who usually rides the bench, recalls his former life in the CBA when he and his teammates used to motor around in a broken-down 1977 yellow Lincoln Continental:
“There was never any gas in it. You didn’t want to fill it up if other guys were going to use it later.
“Nobody was going to put $10 worth of gas in it, if you were only going to use $3. So you’d put in $2 and take your foot off the gas going down hills.”
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Trivia time: Who holds the NBA record for most steals in one quarter?
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Money men: Boston Red Sox backup catcher Bill Haselman’s locker is located between those of Mo Vaughn and Jose Canseco.
Vaughn earns $5.7 million and Canseco $4.5 million. Haselman makes $300,000.
Said teammate Mike Greenwell: “We got Money [Canseco], Mo Money [Vaughn] and No Money [Haselman].
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Political concern? Dan Shaughnessy in the Boston Globe: “The Red Sox are finally up to speed with their clubhouse Latin presence. . . . If Pat Buchanan gets elected president, the Red Sox might have to deport half the team.”
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Wait a minute: Scott Ostler in the San Francisco Chronicle: “Cleveland Indian General Manager John Hart says, ‘We . . . recognize Albert Belle has an image problem with the media.’
“With the media? That teenaged trick-or-treater Albert chased and knocked down with his car was a media person?”
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Add Belle: In an Inside Sports interview he commented on not winning MVP honors: “Since when is character supposed to be a requirement for the award?” Interviewer: ‘For about the last 50 years.’ ”
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Child caring: Gary Shelton of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times offering some advice to Atlanta Hawk Coach Lenny Wilkens on handling Christian Laettner: “Huggies are more absorbent than Pampers, and never lose the pacifier.”
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Company man: Seattle SuperSonic guard Gary Payton won’t be asked to participate in NBA promotion ads after saying: “If I was a fan, I wouldn’t watch the NBA until the playoffs. I’d watch college [ball]. It’s more exciting than the NBA.”
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No litter bug: Orlando Merced of the Pittsburgh Pirates broke his bat fouling off a pitch against the Philadelphia Phillies last Tuesday.
The biggest piece of the bat flew into the stands, directly into a trash can.
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Trivia answer: Fat Lever of Denver, with eight against Indiana on March 9, 1985.
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Quotebook: NFL owner Art Modell, on moving his team to Baltimore: “Time cures everything. They even took Al Davis back into the camp.”
