Some Obscure Anecdotes from the Illustrious Career of Tim McCarver

Tim McCarver Answers Your Sports Questions!
Tuesday 09/28/2004

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Name: Wm. B. Fankboner
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Hi Tim,

Question: Do you remember an incident that took place on the basketball court of Christian Brother’s High School during a joint practice session of the freshman team and the B team, when you picked up a loose ball and threw it at a kid trying out for the freshman squad? Beaned him right on the head. You always did have a great throwing arm. Turns out this kid was pretty handy with a basketball, but had a slight limp due to an episode with polio years before, and you didn’t approve of him trying out for sports. What a great role model you were back then, Tim!

While we’re on the subject of your glory days at Christian Brother’s High School, do you recall a school assembly when you were chosen to present an athletic award to an upperclassman? With the typical jock-strap chutzpah, you thanked the master of ceremonies and walked off the stage with the award yourself.  

Sports is the toy department, Tim. Get over yourself.

Then there was that time Deion Sanders poured a cooler of ice water over your head in the locker room after a game because of some pompous remark you made about his career. You were furious and called it a ‘cowardly act.’ Compared to which beaning a polio victim with a 23-ounce basketball is — what? — an act of manly courage?

Oh well, as someone said at the time, what would you expect from the son of a Memphis cop?

Finally, remember that New Yorker Magazine critic who called you a ‘blowhard’ for hogging the mike? Funny how reality sneaks up on you, isn’t it Tim?

Fondly,

Wm. B. Fankboner, Class of ‘58

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