If This Keeps Up, Garvey Gravy May Be Next at Dodger Stadium

Milwaukee, which has a reputation for its gastronomic delights, has a new item for gourmet baseball fans--the Stormin’ Gorman--a $5.25 Cajun chicken sandwich described as a power eater’s delight.

It’s at the top of the menu at Gorman’s Grill, just outside the Brewers’ County Stadium, where former slugger Gorman Thomas is serving as host, maitre d’, autograph signer and all-around handyman. The Brewers are hoping his culinary delights will prove as popular as Boog Powell’s pit beef barbecue outside Baltimore’s Camden Yards.

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Trivia time: Who was the Dodgers’ bat boy for their first game in Dodger Stadium?

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Too lifelike: The statue of Tommy Trojan has been on the USC campus for 65 years. Football stars Erny Pinckert and Russ Saunders were used as models.

Trojan alum Doug Hays recalls that another USC football hero, Harry Edelson, had been considered. Later, when Edelson was a coach at Fremont High, someone asked why he hadn’t been chosen.

“No way,” was the response. “The coach had so many muscles, it wouldn’t have looked real.”

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Early start: Ramon Martinez is only 27, but when he threw his no-hitter last week, it was 11 years after he first pitched at Dodger Stadium.

Martinez was 16, the youngest baseball player in the 1984 Olympic Games, when he came on in relief for the Dominican Republic with the bases loaded and one out against Taiwan, which went on to win.

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One of a kind: Harley Potter is 103, lives in Winston-Salem, N.C., and regularly shoots his age on the golf course. He recently won the 100-and-over division in the U.S. Senior Sports Classic--he was the only competitor. Potter’s daughter, Leta Duffin, told Inside Sports his secret to longevity.

“He has always said he doesn’t worry about yesterday because it’s gone or about tomorrow because it’s not here,” she said.

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Dangerous sport: Patrick Carpentier never got a scratch while driving to third place in the Toyota-Atlantic race last Saturday at Toronto. But he wound up in the hospital anyway.

The Canadian driver was hit in the left eye by a cork that popped from a champagne bottle on the victory podium.

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Remembering Ashe: The city of Richmond is having a problem with where to place its 12-foot statue of Arthur Ashe, a native son. Some want it along Monument Avenue with the statues of Confederate leaders Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson. Some want it in a downtown park, standing alone.

Paul DiPasquale, the sculptor, favors Monument Avenue, saying, “Our goal is not to find where Arthur Ashe best honors Richmond but where in the city of Richmond is Arthur Ashe most honored. There can be only one answer.”

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A real switch: Baseball minds agree that the Tony Phillips for Chad Curtis trade probably benefited both the Angels and the Tigers, but how about the Mike Kekich for Fritz Peterson trade?

In 1972, the two New York Yankee pitchers traded wives, homes, children, dogs and cats after what must have been an interesting summer afternoon party for team players and their families.

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Family feud: U.S. Women’s Open champion Annika Sorenstam is engaged to David Esch, a representative for Ping golf clubs in Phoenix. There’s a problem, though. Sorenstam plays Callaway clubs.

When asked about it, Sorenstam said, “It’s a touchy subject.”

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Trivia answer: James Hahn, the city attorney.

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Quotebook: San Francisco Giant Manager Dusty Baker, after his team lost to Houston, 13-8 and 15-9: “A lot of guys are a little exhausted from chasing balls down out there.”