Working for peanuts: Here’s one more sign...

Working for peanuts: Here’s one more sign that some baseball fans are still disgruntled. Dodger celebrity vendor Roger (the Peanut Man) Owens says his number of “season peanut holders” has fallen from 12 to nine because of disillusionment with the strike. These special customers contract for a double-bag of goobers to be thrown to their seat location at every home game.

Owens has been in heavy demand elsewhere, though. He just made his fourth appearance on the “Tonight Show” (believed to be a major league record for peanut vendors), throwing out an estimated 60 bags in two minutes.

He also was approached about speaking and performing before a meeting of the world’s top-selling insurance agents at a convention center in Toronto but that deal fell through. “The city thought there would be too much of a mess from the shells,” he said.

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Sax appeal?Baseball players hardly rank high in the hearts of Americans these days. But Steve Sax is going into politics anyway. Sax--a second baseman known for his wild arm with the Dodgers--is seeking an Assembly seat in Northern California. He tossed his hat into the ring on Thursday. Wonder where it landed?

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Guess they know they’re dealing with college kids: Judy Hoffman of Westlake Village sent along a billing statement from UCLA that states the winter registration fee is $2,248.50--but indicates that the university doesn’t seem to have much hope of collecting it.

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Coffee cops: When we said that the Long Beach Police’s homicide department was marketing a ghoulish coffee mug, we didn’t mean to give the impression that the cops were selling them out of their car trunks. The mug, which shows a corpse, a toe-tag and the slogan, “Our Day Begins When Your Day Ends,” is actually being marketed by Long Beach through a shop it owns--City Goods. While the word “Homicide” is on the cup, that department says it had nothing to do with the design.

“We don’t even have one in our office,” said one cop.

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Meet your suburbs: Maywood was “originally a cow pasture and then a truck farming area,” according to local history. “The first structure built in the area was a shack in 1915. In 1919, the inhabitants voted to name their growing town in honor of a popular woman, May Wood, who worked for the land corporation.”

We’re now checking to see if May Wood had a brother named Lake, who gave his name to another L.A. suburb.

miscelLAny Spotlight L.A., a publication of the L.A. Convention & Visitors Bureau, reports that the company LA Nighthawks is offering a daytime “Magical Musical History Tour” that will show where the Beach Boys recorded, and where the Doors and Bob Marley performed as well as “the hotel Van Halen trashed and the one where John Belushi died.”