Random Bball fact of the day on yet another slow sports day

[STEVEHOLT]

Grandpa munster was a big time bball scout

In an interview in the publication New Times in 1998, when Lewis was a Green Party candidate for governor of New York, he said he didn't recruit high school players, but "bird-dogged" talent for college coaches. Considered a college hoops fanatic, he said he had as many as 60 Division I college coaches calling him for tips.

"You can call Marty Blake, the chief scout for the NBA, he lives outside Atlanta, and ask him who is the most knowledgeable man of roundball you have ever met. Without hesitation he will tell you Al Lewis," he told New Times. "I have bird-dogged high-school basketball since 1934. I have seen more high-school games than Dean Smith and Lou Carnesecca combined."

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=2319385

 

[CaptainJ]

Man, I wish I had been bird dogged more than mad dogged in my life.

 

[orange2win]

Didn't Al Lewis also write Blueberry Hill

 

[Toga]

Speaking of scouts - did any of you locals know a guy named Pennisi? Did some part-time scouting work for the NBA - think he or his family owned a fish market in town and he would do some occasional substitute teaching.