A Nice Jacket, but They Still Can’t Get Bugs Out

For the truly cool, just in time for the NBA finals, there is the Hare Jordan jacket. The letterman-style jacket has black leather sleeves and an embroidered likeness of Bugs Bunny on the front. Bugs is dunking with his legs split, a la Michael (Air) Jordan.

The Hare Jordan jacket is available at the Warner Bros. studio store in the Beverly Center, according to spokesman John Lara, who said most of the jackets were shipped to Chicago in anticipation of a run on them during the Bulls’ series with the Portland Trail Blazers.

Shoppers should note that also in stock is the new Batman jacket, but Lara admitted that the Caped Crusader can’t dunk.

“Maybe the Penguin,” Lara said.

Trivia time: How many relief pitchers are in the Baseball Hall of Fame?

Safe at home: For what it’s worth, the team with the home-court advantage has won the last six NBA finals and 33 of 45 in league history.

Basket case: Before a Met game this week at Shea Stadium, stars from the old Negro leagues were honored, including Ted (Double Duty) Radcliffe, 90, given his nickname by Damon Runyon after the 1932 Negro League World Series.

Double Duty? Radcliffe caught Satchel Paige in Game 1 and pitched a shutout in the next game. Besides Hall of Famers Monte Irwin and Buck Leonard, also honored was Gene Benson, a three-time Negro League all-star, who said he taught Willie Mays the basket catch.

The only difference in their styles, Benson said, was that Mays put more balls in his basket.

Eviction notice: Barcelona police are trying to move dozens of prostitutes from one of the main Olympic areas far from the city center to a warehouse district.

Yeah, sure: Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has written a song for the Olympic closing ceremonies to be performed by his former wife, Sarah Brightman, and Spanish tenor Jose Carreras.

The title of the song: “Friends for Life.” Webber and Brightman were divorced two years ago.

Fallout: Ernie Broglio, traded by the St. Louis Cardinals to the Chicago Cubs for eventual Hall of Famer Lou Brock, was invited to an old-timers’ game at Chicago that happened to fall on the 25th anniversary of that one-sided deal.

Said Broglio: “I was probably the only player who got a standing boo.”

Old-timer: Johnny Mize, 79, plans to take part in the Cardinals’ 100-year anniversary celebration, but he won’t play in the old-timers’ game. Mize has had a quadruple bypass, two knees replaced, operations for cataracts and prostate trouble in recent years.

Said Mize: “Other than that, I’ve been fine.”

Grid note: In case you’re wondering, the World League used to be the World League of American Football, but was changed because the acronym, WLAF, wasn’t good for much other than a laugh.

World League attendance this year was no laughing matter, though, slipping 7.4% from last year’s first season. And with only today’s championship game remaining, TV ratings ranged from 1.7 for ABC to 1.0 for USA.

Trivia answer: Two--Hoyt Wilhelm and Rollie Fingers.

Quotebook: Toronto Blue Jay and former Minnesota Twin pitcher Jack Morris on returning to a hostile Metrodome to pick up his award as the Twins’ most valuable player of 1991: “If I can handle the World Series, I can handle this pressure.”