> Why in the world did Babe Ruth's mother name him after a candy bar?

And why was Jerry Garcia named after an ice cream flavor?

I don't have a favorite jock story (except maybe the one about Lee Travino... I'll get to that in a minute), but I have something similar. I read an interview with an NRA representative after Charton Heston was chosen as president in which he explained the choice by saying: Charlton Heston played Moses in "The Ten Commandments." Therefore, if Charlton Heston were president of the NRA, it would seem as though they had Moses on their side. Oh my.

Well, now for the (very famous) Lee Travino story. Lee Travino was seen on a hill one day during a thunderstorm, waving a one-iron over his head. When asked what in the world he was doing, he replied: "Even God couldn't hit a one-iron!"

Of course, I can bowl three strings and not break fifty, so I should talk about ineptitude. :-}

I'm good at floor hockey - I remember when I was in high school we played floor hockey in gym class. My glasses got mangled at the very beginning (due to an unfortunate collision with a six-four, two-hundred-something-pound guy (I'm five-five, one-thirty), and I am almost legally blind without them. So I played the rest of the game without my glasses, and outscored every other player put together. I guess hockey's just my game. 'Course, I'm worthless in ice skates - I have not one but *two* bad ankles. -=siGh=-