Baseball Quiz: Ichiro just got his 200th hit for a 10th consecutive season. Name the other five who have eight or more 200-hit campaigns. Answer below.
College Football Review
No. 3 Boise State did what they had to do, beat No. 24 Oregon State, though it wasn’t quite as handily as some of us wanted…37-24. However, No. 4 TCU only beat OSU by 30-21 earlier this year, so that is going to be an important comparison for BCS consideration down the road.
No. 1 Alabama proved its mettle in coming back at Fayetteville to defeat No. 10 Arkansas, 24-20. ‘Bama Heisman winner Mark Ingram ran for 157 yards and at times looked like a man amongst boys. This guy will truly be something special at the next level.
TCU had trouble this week with what appears to be a solid SMU team, 41-24.
UCLA upset No. 7 Texas, 34-12. However, it was back on 9/13 in this space that your editor said Texas was “incredibly overrated.”
No. 8 Oklahoma just snuck by a Cincinnati squad that isn’t good, 31-29.
No. 14 Arizona edged California, 10-9…important because a future Boise State opponent, Nevada, whipped up on Cal, 52-31. [Nevada also defeated BYU this week, 27-13. Nevada plays Boise on Nov. 26. Meanwhile, Idaho hosts Nevada, Nov. 6, before it plays Boise State in the game I’m going to, Nov. 12. For its part, Idaho lost to Colorado State this weekend, 36-34, after CSU had lost to Nevada, 51-6. Uh oh…the Vandals may not put up much of a fight against the two WAC powers.]
No. 16 Stanford beat Notre Dame (now 1-3), 37-14. But in this contest, fresh off a glowing Sports Illustrated article, Owen Marecic, one of the few in college football who plays both ways, scored on a run and an interception just 13 seconds apart! As Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh said, “He’s the perfect football player.”
Virginia Tech, in shutting out Boston College up in Chestnut Hill, 19-0, helped Boise State a smidge. The Hokies need to continue on a roll for the Broncos to benefit.
And in two games that meant zero, except to supporters, Rutgers lost to a severely depleted North Carolina team (due to 12 players being suspended as a result of the agent scandal), at home, 17-13, while my Wake Forest Demon Deacons played like real church chumps, err, deacons, in getting shut out by Florida State, 31-0. This season is shaping up exactly as I thought it would. We have some individual talent on offense, but the offensive line and the entire defense are being manhandled.
–Goodness gracious, the Pitt Panthers (my closet 2nd-favorite team because of my parents both graduating from there) not only got their butts kicked by No. 19 Miami, 31-3, with star running back Dion Lewis continuing to struggle (as he sees his draft status plummet), but Pitt has had a myriad of discipline issues.
I mean check out this line from an AP report this week.
“Former Pittsburgh defensive back Jeff Knox Jr., kicked off the team hours before its 31-3 loss to Miami, has been charged with assault for allegedly slapping and choking a woman after she told him she was pregnant….
“Knox, a freshman, didn’t play in the first two games for the 1-2 Panthers, who are losing players to suspension faster than they are losing games.
“Offensive lineman Keith Coleman and running back Jason Douglas were also arrested this month and are suspended from the team. Defensive end Jabaal Sheard did not miss any games after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct following a July fight in Pittsburgh.”
Sheard, by the way, pleaded guilty after throwing a man through an art gallery’s glass door during a July 18 fight. Well, at least the lad was getting some culture!
–I thought Johnny Mac summed up the state of ACC and Big East football these days, especially after Miami’s and North Carolina’s defeats of Pitt and Rutgers. The ACC should have the new slogan:
“I know we kinda suck, but at least we ain’t the Big East.”
–So recognizing the above all pertained to last week’s rankings….the new AP poll.
1. Alabama
2. Ohio State
3. Boise State
4. Oregon…Duckwear continuing to rise in value more than even gold!
5. TCU…so pollsters weighed in on SMU win
6. Nebraska…should be 9…defeated South Dakota State by only 17-3
7. Florida
8. Oklahoma
9. Stanford…up from 16!
10. Auburn…up from 17 following win over No. 12 South Carolina
11. Wisconsin…plays Ohio State Oct. 16
21. Texas…doh!
23. North Carolina State…Go Wolfpack!
25. Nevada…here we go!
–Lastly, Sports Illustrated’s Phil Taylor nailed it in talking about how pitiful it is that the NCAA insists on taking victories away from teams later found to have violated the rules, a la USC during the Reggie Bush years.
“It doesn’t matter if you put your hand on a stack of Bibles and swear that you watched USC cruise undefeated through the 2005 regular season before losing to Texas in the Rose Bowl. The Trojans’ 12 victories never happened. It makes no difference if you cue up the video of Memphis losing to Kansas in the final of the 2008 NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The Tigers were never there.
“Your mind isn’t playing tricks on you – the NCAA is. The infractions committee has become increasingly fond of taking an eraser to history as a way of punishing rule-breaking programs, excising their accomplishments the way you might cut an ex-spouse out of a family photo. The Trojans’ perfect ’05 regular season was stricken from the records in June primarily because running back Reggie Bush was found to have accepted cash and gifts from agents that year, just as the Tigers’ Final Four trip was vacated in August 2009 along with their 38 victories after guard Derrick Rose was ruled ineligible mainly because of fraudulent SAT scores….So many wins and entire seasons have been invalidated that college sports seem to exist in two dimensions: the real one and the airbrushed one.
“No one would argue against punishing a cheating program, and it’s hard to blame the NCAA for using every penalty at its disposal, including symbolic ones. Yet invalidating victories is a pointless measure that penalizes no one while muddying the official record with scenarios that defy logic.”
Is there a bigger jerk on the planet these days, or at least in the NFL, than Washington’s Albert Haynesworth? He’s even more of one than Braylon Edwards, and that’s saying something.
On Saturday, Haynesworth told a radio station that when it comes to his $100 million contract:
“I guess in this world we don’t have a lot of people with, like backbones. Just because somebody pay you money don’t mean they’ll make you do whatever they want…does that mean everything is for sale?”
Haynesworth, who received a $21 million bonus in April, even though he was hopelessly out of shape, continued:
“I mean, I’m not for sale. Yeah, I signed the contract and got paid a lot of money, but…that doesn’t mean I’m for sale or a slave or whatever.”
And so I place Albert Haynesworth’s name, again, in the December file for “Jerk” and “Idiot of the Year” consideration.
Anyway…just a few game notes…the NFL getting short shrift in these columns do to timing of the games.
C.J. Spiller had a 95-yard kickoff return for a score, as well as a TD reception, but the Bills fell to New England, 38-30, as the Pats’ new running back, former Jet Danny Woodhead, rushed for 42 yards and a touchdown on just 3 carries. He should still be a Jet!
And another Jet castoff, Leon Washington, had kickoff returns of 99 and 101 yards for Seattle in their upset of San Diego, 27-20. This is a guy who some of us, including the Jets organization, thought was washed up following a severe leg injury.
Meanwhile, the Vikings rode Adrian Peterson’s 160 yards to their first win, 24-10 over the Lions.
And Denver’s Kyle Orton threw for 476 yards, but the Broncos only had 13 points in going down to Indy, 27-13. Goodness gracious.
But look at the 3-0 Kansas City Chiefs! Good for them. And guess what? Yet another Jet has been a real shot in the arm, running back Thomas Jones, who had 95 yards in the Chiefs’ 31-10 win over San Francisco.
Then there are the Giants. Thank god I’m not a fan of this club as they put on an atrocious display in going down to Tennessee, 29-10. Five personal fouls out of the offensive line. Two by Kareem McKenzie that were about the dumbest plays in the history of the sport…both right in front of the official. There will be serious repercussions from coach Tom Coughlin this week, that’s for sure.
Ryder Cup 2010
It’s going to be a lot of fun in Wales this coming weekend…at least some of us Americans hope it is, and not a total blowout. I imagine most U.S. fans would agree with me that we just want to be within 3 heading into Sunday’s singles, though we could get our butt kicked in them as well. I’m just not real optimistic. And the weather forecast is dreadful…heavy rain. You know all those Atlantic hurricanes and tropical storms? Eventually they almost all end up in the British Isles in one form or another. It was Nick Faldo who had the parting words in 2008, concerning 2010; “remember to bring your waterproofs.”
European team
Luke Donald…32…5-1-1 Ryder Cup record…#9 World rank a/o Sept. 12
Ross Fisher…29…Rookie…#27
Peter Hanson…32…Rookie…#42
Padraig Harrington…39…7-11-3…#22
Miguel Angel Jimenez…46…2-7-3…#26
Martin Kaymer…25…Rookie…#5
Graeme McDowell…31…2-1-1…#14
Rory McIlroy…21…Rookie…#8
Edoardo Molinari…29…Rookie…#16
Francesco Molinari…27…Rookie…#33
Ian Poulter…34…5-2-0…#13
Lee Westwood…37…14-10-5…#3
U.S. team
Stewart Cink…37…4-7-4…#35
Rickie Fowler…21…Rookie…#32
Jim Furyk…40…8-13-3…#6
Dustin Johnson…26…Rookie…#12
Zach Johnson…34…1-2-1…#18
Matt Kuchar…32…Rookie…#10
Hunter Mahan…28…2-0-3…#15
Phil Mickelson…40…10-14-6…#2
Jeff Overton…27…Rookie…#49
Steve Stricker…43…0-2-1…#4
Bubba Watson…31…Rookie…#25
Tiger Woods…34…10-13-2…#1
The U.S. actually has a better average world rank, 17.42 to Europe’s 18.17. Europe has a better individual Ryder Cup record among those with experience, 35-32-13 vs. 35-51-20.
Among the big U.S. guns in singles, Tiger is 3-1-1, Phil 3-4-0, and Furyk 4-1-1.
Lastly, many of us are assuming Captain Corey Pavin will match up long-ball hitters Bubba Watson and Dustin Johnson. I’m also assuming Tiger is with Steve Stricker (though I’d be surprised if Tiger is playing in all five potential matches), while you’d kind of think veterans Cink and Furyk would be matched with Fowler and Overton, one way or another. And what the heck, I’ll complete my guesswork by going with Phil and Kuchar, and then Zach Johnson and Mahan, assuming Pavin wants to work in all 12 the first day.
One other item…in Sunday’s singles, we all want to see Rickie Fowler matched against Rory McIlroy. There’s a history there, with Fowler having defeated McIlroy in foursomes at the 2007 Walker Cup, while in another foursomes match, McIlroy halved with Dustin Johnson and his playing partner.
That 2007 Walker Cup was a great one…U.S. 12 1/2, Great Britain & Ireland 11 1/2.
Friday: 3 a.m. – 1 p.m., ESPN
Saturday: 8 a.m. – 6 p.m., NBC…delayed tape, from what I understand
Sunday: 7 a.m. – 1 p.m., NBC
Final prediction…Europe will win, but it will be close, however, if the weather is as bad as they’re predicting, Europe will crush us….like 17-11 or worse.
Ball Bits
–Cincinnati’s Cuban sensation Aroldis Chapman has thrown 159 pitches in the big leagues in his short stint thus far and the lefty has hit 100 mph on 74 of them, including a high of 105 mph on Friday against San Diego, supposedly the fastest ever recorded. As Ronald Reagan would have said…not bad, not bad at all.
–More on the Mets and the grand slam this season. David Waldstein of the New York Times points out that no team in history has ever had the disparity the Mets have…12 given up, none hit (in 125 at-bats with the bases filled, as of Sat.). The Mets last hit a grand slam on Aug. 1, 2009.
–A lot of us are talking about this story from the New York Times’ Richard Sandomir.
“How a near pristine black-and-white reel of the entire television broadcast of the deciding game of the 1960 World Series – long believed to be lost forever – came to rest in the dry and cool wine cellar of Bing Crosby’s home near San Francisco is not a mystery to those who knew him.
“Crosby loved baseball, but as a part owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates he was too nervous to watch the Series against the Yankees, so he and his wife went to Paris, where they listened by radio.
“ ‘‘He said, ‘I can’t stay in the country,’’ his widow, Kathryn Crosby, said. ‘ ‘I’ll jinx everybody.’’”
So Bing got a company to film the game off a television monitor and the five-reel set is the only known complete copy of the game, one of the greatest ever played as Bill Mazeroski won it with a game-ending homer to beat the Yankees, 10-9, one that eventually propelled Maz into the Hall of Fame (a different topic for another day).
“Crosby…had more foresight than the television networks and stations, which erased or discarded nearly all of the Major League Baseball games they carried until the 1970s.
“A canny preservationist of his own legacy, Crosby, who died in 1977 [Ed. hard to believe it was that long ago], kept a half-century’s worth of records, tapes and films in the wine cellar turned vault in his Hillsborough, Calif., home.”
Incredibly, after Crosby viewed the game, the film took its place in the vault with the others, but wasn’t discovered until this past December. By the way, how long do you think this 10-9 contest took to play? Try 2 hours 36 minutes! Amazingly, the tape has not degraded and is now being transferred to DVD.
So sometime in the offseason, the MLB Network is going to show it, with Bob Costas as host. Mel Allen and Bob Prince called it for NBC.
–So the other day, the New York Times’ Tyler Kepner wrote:
“Through Wednesday (9/22), (Tampa Bay’s Carlos) Pena’s .201 average was the lowest in the majors among the 152 players who qualify for the batting title. It is also the lowest in major league history for a player with as many home runs (27) and runs batted in (81) as he has.”
So I read this and thought, ‘No way,’ thinking immediately of Dave Kingman.
But then my friend Bob S. (from high school), who had not read Kepner’s piece, within minutes was musing about Arizona’s Mark Reynolds, who as of Bob’s writing was around .203 with 32 homers and 84 RBI.
Saturday, I looked up my man Dave Kingman’s model season, 1982, when he hit 37 HR, drove in 99, yet hit just .204 (and only nine…nine…doubles!).
Then late Saturday night (very exciting evening, sports fans), I read Kepner’s piece for Sunday in the Times and he writes this:
“A reader named Lee Weatherly sent along a helpful e-mail early Thursday morning. The night before, The New York Times had published an article about Carlos Pena of the Rays, noting that, through Wednesday, Pena’s .201 average was the lowest ever for a player with at least 27 homers and 81 runs batted in.
“But, as Weatherly noted, ‘history doesn’t last long.’ And sure enough, after deadline, Mark Reynolds of the Diamondbacks finished 0 for 3…dropping his average to .200 to go with his 32 home runs and 84 RBI.”
Now this is so bogus on a number of levels. First off, I like Tyler Kepner’s work. I’ve quoted it extensively. But to write “The New York Times had published,” when it was an article under Kepner’s byline, for crying out loud, sucks. And for someone writing with such a broad, national audience, he should have researched it better. I mean don’t you also like how he writes, “And sure enough, after deadline…” Whaddya mean? All he had to do was scan the averages and Reynolds would have stood out for his original piece. “Carlos Pena has done X so far, but it needs to be noted that Mark Reynolds is not far behind….”
I just can’t stand this covering your ass crap like Kepner did. I mean he didn’t even do a good job of it.
Just admit your mistake…your mistake…not the paper’s…and move on. The New York Times isn’t double-checking something like this.
Carlos Pena .199, 27-81
Mark Reynolds .199, 32-84…yes, the same average
Dave Kingman (1982) .204, 37-99
Mark McGwire (1991) .201, 22-75
Mark McGwire (2001) .187, 29-64 (and in only 299 at-bats, McGwire still being very much in the steroids culture in what would prove to be his last season…of course he was breaking down!)
—Jim Furyk won $10 million…$10 million…for taking the FedEx Cup, thanks to a clutch bunker shot on No. 18. Wife Tabatha was rather pleased. Very, very pleased.
–Gotta admit it would be pretty cool if the New Jersey Nets acquired Carmelo Anthony, though there are too many complications as I go to post.
–Sporting News’ NHL pick: Canucks over Capitals for the Stanley Cup…more hockey coverage in March. [You’d feel the same way if you were a Rangers fan.]
–Boy, I’m tired of the Lance Armstrong deal, but I do have to update the story of Stephanie McIlvain, who was taped by Greg LeMond saying she heard Armstrong talk about using PEDs with his doctors when he was being treated for cancer in 1996. But the other day she testified before a federal grand jury that she never heard Armstrong admit to this.
150 years ago… “An 1860 campaign photograph of Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln prompts Grace Bedell, 11, of Westfield, New York, to write to him in October with a suggestion: grow a beard. Her Democrat brothers will vote for him, she says, and ‘all the ladies like whiskers.’ Lincoln replies that a beard might strike some as a ‘silly affectation,’ but months later a bearded president-elect stops in Westfield, kisses Bedell and tells the crowd he has taken her advice. An 1864 Bedell letter to Lincoln asking for a job turns up in 2007; embroiled in the Civil War, Lincoln likely did not see it. Bedell dies in 1936 at age 88.”
–Picture restorers at the famed Prado museum in Madrid have discovered a previously unknown painting by one of my favorite artists, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Only 40 signed Bruegels are said to be in existence and this could fetch as much as $30 million on the private market, though the Prado is trying to acquire it from the owners.
“It shows peasant women and children, beggars, thieves and drunks all struggling to get some of the wine from the first barrel of the season.” [BBC]
That’s my boy, Bruegel…depicting the kind of action that takes place here at the headquarters of StocksandNews when your editor brings home the first premium of the New Year.
–And now for one of the saddest stories you’ll ever read.
“Elephants are killed by speeding train as they try to protect calves”
“Seven elephants were crushed to death by a speeding train in eastern India as the family group desperately tried to shield two calves that had become stuck in the tracks, conservation officials said.
“The two baby elephants became trapped when the herd crossed the track in a densely forested part of the northern district of Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, late on Wednesday. Officials had been urging operators to reduce the speed of trains in the region for months.
“ ‘Five elephants died immediately on the track while two others succumbed to their injuries on Thursday morning,’ said Atanu Raha, the chief forest conservator in West Bengal. The area is widely used by elephants as a transit corridor and a number have died after being hit by trains.
“The adults had crowded around the trapped calves trying to protect them when they were hit by the goods train, Mr. Raha said. The calves were among the dead. Rail traffic was immediately suspended. The surviving members of the herd were still at the scene yesterday morning, watching over the dead and injured, Mr. Raha added.
“The incident was described as an example of the highly social nature of elephants. Females live in tight family groups of mothers, daughters, sisters and aunts, led by the eldest. Different female family groups may interact. Males, by contrast, lead mostly solitary lives…
“There have been reports in recent weeks of elephants staring down trains that have halted at signals in the region. ‘They have been seeking revenge for past collisions,’ one wildlife official told The Times. More than 20 elephants have died in a little over a year in the area.”
India has 33,000 wild elephants and here’s hoping they launch a series of assaults against…actually, I probably shouldn’t go there. One thing is for sure. When the next All-Species List is tabulated (January…I promise), the elephant is handily in the top ten, as Man drops another few, potentially out of the listing altogether.
—But some good news on the animal front…for once. It seems that wildlife is booming in Uganda’s national parks. As in back in 1999, there were around 1,600 impala and now there are 35,000. And the hippo and elephant population is rising, owing largely to anti-poaching efforts that were greatly aided by the expulsion of a leading rebel group from a major wildlife haven.
“Cai Yong thought it would be a good idea to buy 3,000 cobra eggs and then hatch the snakes at an abandoned school building in homemade cages of plywood, brick and netting.
“The local businessman’s plan to make money by selling cobra venom for traditional medicine fell apart when more than 160 of the serpents slithered through a hole in the wall and created bedlam in remote Xianling.”
“Starting at the beginning of this month, cobras were spotted in outhouse toilets, kitchens, front yards and the mah-jong parlor in the tiny farming village.
“ ‘I saw one in the bathroom,’ said Zhang Suli, 47, the wife of a corn and rice farmer. ‘I was scared, and I started screaming.’”
Well, this being China, the government moved in and declared that the snakes had been captured, which of course the villagers didn’t believe.
“ ‘The government is scared of people panicking because these snakes are dangerous,’ said Guan Xinyu. ‘I know they didn’t catch all the snakes.’”
Officials have delivered snakebite serum and given lectures about cobras. “Stay away from cobras! Stay away!”
Bottom line, everyone has a spade at the ready these days.
–South African police smashed a rhino poaching ring, arresting 11, with the suspects including two veterinarians and a game farmer. Just give them all the death penalty. 204 rhinos have been killed this year alone in South Africa, as demand is soaring for rhino horn in Asia, where the a-holes there use it for medicinal purposes, and of course, as the population gets wealthier, so grows the market.
–You all undoubtedly saw the story of the Montana woman who fended off a 200 lb. black bear with a zucchini…or as the British say, a courgette.
The bear attacked one of the woman’s dogs on the back porch of her home and when she tried to stop the attack, the bear bit into her leg.
So…not having access to the saw blade from a Swiss Army Knife, she reached for the nearest object, said zucchini.
Flinging the vegetable like Aroldis Chapman, the bear lumbered off. The woman didn’t seek medical attention. And the dog that was attacked, a collie, was unharmed.
No word on whether the woman washed the zucchini upon finding it later on the ground before she made some zucchini bread.
–According to researchers at Northumbria University in the U.K., men showed no reaction between women wearing high heels and those wearing flat shoes. Dr. Nick Neave, an evolutionary psychologist who led the study, told The Telegraph, “Women are spending money on high heels, which can be dangerous, presumably to make themselves look good and add to what nature has given them.”
Anyway, girls, you can also save money by switching to GEICO.
–We note the passing of entertainer Eddie Fisher, 82. Fisher had a slew of hits from 1950 to 1956, including four that made No. 1 on the pop charts. He also appeared in a number of movies, including “Butterfield 8.”
But to many he’s best remembered for his failed marriages to Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor and Connie Stevens.
Born in Philadelphia on Aug. 10, 1928, one of seven children of a Jewish grocer, by 1950 Fisher had recorded his first hit, “Thinking of You,” which was followed by “Any Time,” “Oh, My Pa-Pa,” “I’m Yours,” “Wish You Were Here,” “Lady of Spain” and “Count Your Blessings.”
But it was in 1955 that Fisher married Reynolds, then known as “America’s Sweetheart.” It was a rocky relationship from the start, even as it produced two children, one of whom was Carrie Fisher, later of “Star Wars” fame.
And so it was in 1958 that Fisher’s best friend, producer Mike Todd, was killed in a plane crash, and Fisher comforted Todd’s widow, Elizabeth Taylor. Uh oh. Don’t go there, Eddie!
Alas, imagine the uproar in Hollywood when in 1959, Fisher divorced Reynolds and married Taylor….hours later!
But this one lasted only five years as during the filming of “Cleopatra,” Taylor fell for co-star Richard Burton, divorced Fisher, and married Burton in what has been described as one of the great entertainment world scandals of the 20th century.
Fisher’s career collapsed amid a years-long addiction to drugs, including cocaine, and he never recaptured the magic as people were totally turned off by his escapades. Fisher’s later marriage to Connie Stevens was yet another disaster.
–So as expected J. Lo and Steven Tyler joined Randy Jackson on “American Idol,” but perhaps a slight surprise is they are just going to go with the three. And J. Lo gets her $12 million.
But Joanna Molloy of the Daily News wrote a scathing article on Jenny From the Block (the Bronx) and how J. Lo has given nothing, zero, nada, to her old school, Holy Family.
In fact, said Principal Clair La Tempa, “Jennifer hasn’t even sent us a CD.”
What’s surprising, notes Molloy, is that J. Lo’s mother, Guadalupe, was a kindergarten and gym teacher at Holy Family. And as Molloy writes:
“She didn’t even give autographs to the kids in 2002, when she rolled up in the back of a black Lincoln Navigator with Diane Sawyer. ‘She doesn’t represent,’ one kid said then….
“Lopez told Larry King she wants to bring health care ‘to children all over the planet,’ and help with education.
–Then there’s Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuce! The Boss turned 61 the other day and I happened to catch a piece by Stan Goldstein in the Star-Ledger, referring to a story that first appeared on the Springsteen fan website Backstreets.
“A soon-to-be married couple were having professional pictures taken of them this past Monday in Manasquan, right by the Point Pleasant Beach inlet, when they happened to run into Mr. Springsteen. Bruce used the soon-to-be groom’s guitar to serenade the couple. We haven’t heard what song he sang to them. Bruce posed for a few photos with them.”
Top 3 songs for the week 9/27/80: #1 “Upside Down” (Diana Ross…just awful) #2 “All Out Of Love” (Air Supply…ditto) #3 “Another One Bites The Dust” (Queen…let’s face it, this band was as entertaining as they come, but took me a while to appreciate ‘em)…and…#4 “Give Me The Night” (George Benson) #5 “Lookin’ For Love” (Johnny Lee) #6 “Late In The Evening” (Paul Simon) #7 “Drivin’ My Life Away” (Eddie Rabbitt…did some good stuff) #8 “Fame” (Irene Cara) #9 “One In A Million You” (Larry Graham…big slow dance tune…not that I would know…cuz can’t recall last time I slow danced…must have been before ‘Nam…) #10 “I’m Alright” (Kenny Loggins)
Baseball Quiz Answer: The other five with at least eight 200-hit campaigns. Pete Rose, 10; Ty Cobb, 9; Lou Gehrig, 8; Willie Keeler, 8; Paul Waner, 8.
No Bar Chat this coming week. Back on Monday, Oct. 4. Hanging at an undisclosed location on the Rhode Island coast.
