He Takes Vitamins, but It’s Raw Deal

Tight end Don Hasselbeck of the New York Giants said he consumes 55 vitamin supplements, at a cost of some $500 a month.

His daily consumption includes pituitary, raw adrenaline and raw male tablets.

Raw male tablets?

“It’s the extract of the testicles of a bull,” said Hasselbeck. “I’m not sure what it’s for. But if I take too much, I start mooing.”

How long did it take before the St. Louis Cardinals realized they had made a great acquisition in Jack Clark? Not long. In the 1985 season opener against the New York Mets at Shea Stadium, Clark hit a home run his first time up.

The pitcher for the Mets was Dwight Gooden.

Trivia Time: Excluding the state of New York, this will be the fourth time two teams from the same state have met in the World Series. Name the other three. (Answer below.)

That was hardly news when Wilt Chamberlain revealed he received money when he played at the University of Kansas. He told it all 12 years ago in his autobiography.

Here’s an excerpt from “Wilt,” which Chamberlain co-authored with David Shaw: “The arrangement was that once I was a sophomore, when I made the varsity, I’d get spending money whenever I wanted it. . . . The alums gave me a few names and said, ‘Go see these guys when you need a few bucks.’ I rarely had to ask for anything, though. The team won so many games and I scored so many points, they were always coming up to see me afterward and shoving wads of bills into my hands or my pockets. It might be $5, or $10 or $100, and it just kept coming. I guess I got about $15,000 or $20,000 while I was there. . . . “

Byron Scott, on former Laker assistant coach Dave Wohl, now head coach of the New Jersey Nets: “I like Dave. He used to tell me to shoot more often.”

Billy Martin claims the New York Yankees would have won in any other division. He also claims the Yankees could match the St. Louis Cardinals in the speed department with Rickey Henderson, Bobby Meacham, Willie Randolph and Dave Winfield.

“But what about Whitey Herzog?” needled a reporter.

“The guy managing in St. Louis?” Martin said. “Hell, I replaced him after he got fired in Texas, and I won.”

Herzog was fired near the end of the 1973 season with a 47-91 record. Martin finished with a 9-14 record as the Rangers wound up sixth in the American League West. The following season, under Martin, the Rangers were second with an 84-76 record.

Martin could have added that when he managed the Yankees in 1976 and 1977 he beat Herzog’s Kansas City Royals both years in the American League championship series.

Ivan Lendl said he wasn’t aware that John McEnroe was suffering from a shoulder injury when he beat him in a match in New Jersey last week.

“I said only two words to him during the exhibition,” Lendl said.

Asked what they were, he said: “One was ‘good’ and the other was ‘evening.’ ”

Trivia Answer: Chicago White Sox vs. Chicago Cubs in 1906, St. Louis Cardinals vs. St. Louis Browns in 1944, and Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Oakland A’s in 1974.

Quotebook

Utah Jazz Coach Frank Layden, on son Scott, an assistant coach: “I didn’t hire Scott because he’s my son. I hired him because I’m married to his mother.”