Kareem Abdul Jabbar: Still not in the baseball Hall of Fame

[taterguy]

[judaspriestess]

1. Whats up with that???

somebody has some splaining to do

[Hatalles]

2. bleh

edit: forget it... I see it's one of those copy-cat thread title thingamabobs...

It's been a while since I last visited the lounge. ;D

[taterguy]

7. Forget your reference to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame?

Not a chance

[Hatalles]

11. lol

I don't know what you're talking about. :P

[taterguy]

12. I'm taking about about someone who thought there was an extra "kt" in my OP

Ring any bells?

[Sock Puppet]

3. neither is michael jordan

x(

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Outrageous!

He hit .202 with Birmingham in 1994. That oughta make him a first-ballot shoo-in. :shrug:

[Sock Puppet]

15. that's what i'm sayin'!

[MrCoffee]

4. my dad says he doesn't work hard enough on defense.

And he says that lots of times, he doesn't even run down court. And that he doesn't really try... except during the playoffs.

[taterguy]

5. Surely you jest

[Redbear]

9. Listen ...

tell your old man to play 48 minutes a game with Walton or Lanier on his back and then come talk to me about working hard.

[quip]

13. Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?

:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Only because he couldn't hit the low stuff

:silly:

[Karenina]

10. But he bent down low enough

to kiss me on the cheek after a win back in the day!!! SWOON!!!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. He's still not in the Horse Jockey Hall Of Fame either

When he rode the ponies on the track, he had to kick his legs straight out to keep them from dragging. That's quite a disadvantage.

[begin_within]

16. My sister dated him at UCLA.

My sister went to UC Berkeley for the 1965-66 year and then transferred to UCLA and graduated in June 1969. She told us that she was dating Lew Alcindor, the basketball player on the Bruins (obviously this was before he changed his name to Kareem Abdul Jabbar.) So we knew about it, but sadly we never got to meet him. She did marry another black man, who we met many times and he was a lot of fun. But their marriage lasted only 7 years. Then Kareem played professionally and of course made that appearance in "Airplane!" (1980). I don't know how long she dated him at UCLA, I've never really talked about it with her much.