Postman Rings for the Rams in Baltimore

An organized group of Baltimore sports fans has begun a postcard-writing campaign to Ram owner Georgia Frontiere and club executive John Shaw, trying to convince them to move the team from Anaheim to Baltimore.

Dennis Hand, a retired Baltimore firefighter who heads the “Rite to the Rams” drive, said more than 800 postcards have been sent, all with personal messages.

Meanwhile, agent Leigh Steinberg is continuing his effort to keep the team in Anaheim but concedes it’s a struggle.

“Shaw is open about talking to us, but he’s indicated the train was moving down the tracks toward the team moving,” Steinberg said.

Trivia time: In baseball’s only double no-hit game, in 1917, Fred Toney of Cincinnati and Hippo Vaughn of Chicago threw no-hitters for nine innings. Who broke up Vaughn’s no-hitter in the 10th, giving Cincinnati a 1-0 victory?

Heads up: Peter Leo, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, recalling the 1981 baseball strike:

“I remember a Boston Globe cartoon that pictured an overfed dog, representing baseball, waddling toward a fire hydrant that was labeled ‘fans.’ ”

Pulling for Gehrig: Tommy Henrich, 81, is one of the last major leaguers who can tell a firsthand story of Lou Gehrig.

Henrich, who lives in Dewey, Ariz., was a late-1930s Gehrig teammate. He has followed Cal Ripken’s pursuit of Gehrig’s record 2,130 consecutive games playing streak with interest.

“Because of my past history with the Yankees, Lou Gehrig and all that great tradition, I want that record to stay with Lou Gehrig,” Henrich told The Baltimore Sun.

“But I’ll tell you what, my hat is off to Cal Ripken if he pulls it off.

“It amazes me that a shortstop is doing it--that’s the most amazing thing. There’s more activity at that position than any except catcher. He’s in danger every doggone day, guys sliding into him, whatever. That’s what makes it, to me, all the more remarkable.”

Song poll: The Notre Dame Victory March--”Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame . . . “--is the nation’s most famous college fight song, according to a Northern Illinois University poll.

Where does USC’s “Fight On” rank?

Seventh. No other West Coast school got a call. Second and third are Michigan’s “The Victors” and “On, Wisconsin.”

Get outta here!One recent day in The Times sports department, a young man identified himself as a longtime Giant fan. Minutes later, it was discovered he had never heard of Juan Marichal, San Francisco’s Hall of Fame pitcher of the 1960s.

The young man was ordered to leave.

Help is on the way.

A new cable channel, The Classic Sports Network, will make its debut in the fall, geared toward younger sports followers who never saw the likes of Marichal . . . or Wilt Chamberlain, Mickey Mantle, Muhammad Ali, Willie Mays, etc.

The 24-hour channel will show classic games, old series, documentaries and movies.

Said the channel’s creator and CEO, Brian Bedol: “How can you understand how great a center Shaquille O’Neal is if you haven’t seen Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell?”

Trivia answer: Jim Thorpe.

Quotebook: Former football star Alex Karras, on his golf game: “My best score is 103, but I’ve only been playing 15 years.”