Her Hot Dogs Are Seen as Lateral Hazard

All Carol Cambareri wants to do is sell a few hot dogs from her back-yard grill to hungry golf fans, but the Greater Hartford Jaycees have told her to cool the grill or face the fence. The Connecticut civic organization said that if she doesn’t stop selling franks to spectators at the Greater Hartford Open golf tournament, which continues through Sunday, it would put up an extra fence to keep her hot dogs in her yard.

Cambareri’s property borders the Tournament Players Club course. A temporary fence, incorporating the existing fence in Cambareri’s back yard, was put up before the start of the tournament, but she is selling her dogs over it. If the Jaycees put the extra fence in for the remainder of the tournament, she wouldn’t be able to reach the crowd.

Cambareri said she was told that the tournament insurer has voiced concern over the possibility someone might become ill after eating one of her franks.

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Typecasting: If you had to cast Cincinnati Reds’ reliever Rob Dibble in a TV show, what would he be? The Weiss, Whitten, Carroll, Stagliano ad agency decided something special was needed for its baseball cards commercial--so Dibble was transformed into a flamethrower.

Not bad.

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Trivia time: Who was the first winner of baseball’s triple crown?

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Tonsorial splendor: The shaved-head U.S. volleyball team is not the only American unit making a statement through hairstyling. When the official hair salon for U.S. Olympians lined up athletes for their free haircuts before their departure for Barcelona, the entire taekwondo squad had the Olympic rings carved in the back of their heads.

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Is he serious?”We want tough, hard-nosed players (in the Arena Football League),” Albany Coach Rick Buffington said. “Guys like (San Francisco 49er wide receiver) Jerry Rice couldn’t play in the AFL.”

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Slam dunk: Trading card collectors have a new craze: buying sports star figurines. Gartlan USA, Inc., a Huntington Beach company that produces them, reports their Magic Johnson commemorative figure, which originally sold in 1988 for $275, is now bringing as much as $5,000.

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The right man: When an Eastern European sportswriter asked Michael Jordan why there were so many black players on the U.S. Olympic basketball team, Mark Purdy of the San Jose Mercury-News was there to report his answer.

“I guess it’s because they’re so good,” Jordan said. “I’d hate to think the team was picked because of race. I think it was because of the skill level. You’ve got to be skilled to play NBA basketball, if you are black or white or green. And there just happens to be many good basketball players that are black in the USA.”

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Coming back: Kyle Abbott, the former Angel pitcher who started the season 0-11 for the Philadelphia Phillies, has impressed Manager Jim Fregosi with his 2.80 earned-run average in the past four starts.

“He’s learning how to finish guys off,” Fregosi noted. “Before, he’d get two quick strikes and lose guys.”

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Trivia answer: Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers in 1909.

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Quotebook: A.J. Foyt, on the modern-day work ethic: “People don’t want to work like they used to. A lot of people today want to be a special engineer in one area or another. That’s hard for me to live with. Somebody saying, ‘I did my job, let him do his,’ instead of throwing in a helping hand is what drives me crazy.”