Brenly Thinks His Partner Was More Medieval Than Mediocre

Former Chicago Cub star Ron Santo, now a radio announcer for the club, was saying, “In my day we didn’t have all these fancy training aids, like magnetic resonance imaging.”

Said his broadcast partner, former San Francisco Giant catcher Bob Brenly: “In your day they were still using leeches.”

Nothing to fear: St. Louis Cardinal pitcher Joe Magrane, who finally won his first game since last August, wears a T-shirt that says: “Throw strikes. Babe Ruth is dead.”

Add forgettable quotes: Jack McIvor of Sonoma uncovered a Pro Football Weekly that had these comments on a couple of the San Francisco 49ers’ picks in the 1979 draft.

--Joe Montana: “Alarming lack of consistency and poor technique are most disturbing.”

--Dwight Clark: “Slow hands.”

Trivia time: What major league record did Kansas City Royal Manager John Wathan set as a player?

He called it: Chicago Bull Coach Phil Jackson, who majored in psychology and religion in college, told the Washington Post: “I never thought I would be a pro basketball coach. It had been suggested to me a lot of times, but I just thought there was an awful lot of b.s. you had to put up with as a coach.”

And what did he find?

“I found there’s a lot of b.s. to put up with.”

More striped shirts: When the Cleveland Cavaliers move into a new downtown arena, plans call for the Richfield Coliseum to be turned into a prison.

Born slugger: Detroit Tiger slugger Cecil Fielder told the New York Times about a ball he hit during a Little League game in West Covina: “It went into somebody’s backyard about 150 feet beyond the 200-foot mark on the center-field fence. I think I was about 8 or 9 years old.”

New boss: Ron Borges of the Boston Globe reports that Richie Giachetti, former trainer of Larry Holmes, has taken over at the Mike Tyson camp, reducing the regular trainers to supporting roles.

Borges: “For an example of Giachetti’s expertise, one round into the Meldrick Taylor-Julio Cesar Chavez fight, Giachetti told a ringside observer that Taylor’s mouthpiece was too tight and could become a problem.

“Several rounds later, Taylor began bleeding from the mouth and eventually swallowed more than a pint of blood. Taylor and Manager Lou Duva later said the mouthpiece was new and apparently too tight.”

Add Borges: “Tyson,” he said, “has opened a new gym in Catskill, N.Y., above a children’s clothing store. It is kitty-corner to the gym run by his former trainer, Kevin Rooney. The police station is between them, which seems fortunate.”

Trivia answer: Most stolen bases by a catcher in a season, 36, in 1982.

Quotebook: Pittsburgh Pirate center fielder Andy Van Slyke, on a fly ball hit to him: “It wasn’t a high fly. It wasn’t a low fly or a line drive, either. It was more of a medfly.”