8601210296 DETROIT FREE PRESS 860509 Friday, May 09, 1986 METRO FINAL

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1D Photo MITCH ALBOM Copyright (c) 1986, Detroit Free Press IF BILLY MANAGES AGAIN, WILL HE JOIN THE 3H CLUB? THE LIVE ALBOM . . . * The Cleveland Indians are in first place. The San Francisco Giants are in first place. Billy Martin wants to manage again. My head hurts. * Only a very sick person would sneak up behind Jack Morris these days and scream: "IT'S A LONG FLY BALL, DEEP TO LEFT. . . " * Come on. Admit it. You miss Kirk Gibson. TREE ROLLINS FORGETS HIS DEODORANT! * BOOK MARK: Well, with summer just around the corner, it's time to prepare your vacation reading list. There are new books by Howard Cosell, Peter Ueberroth, and Ron Luciano. But they stink. * May I suggest a few lesser known titles: "Get Me United Airlines . . . " The unauthorized biography of Billy Martin. "That's No Moustache, That's My Upper Lip" -- Larry Bird's guide to looking sharp in shorts. "Rock Me, I'm-A-Danish" -- Twelve original poems by William (The Refrigerator) Perry. * NAAAY: Did you notice only two of the 16 Kentucky Derby horses were not on drugs? Those two were, however, caught rolling in the hay. * Doug English. Kirk Gibson. The Pistons. Hey. Detroit has lost enough for one spring. Let's let some other city have a turn. * I vote New York. ODE TO SPUD WEBB Nice try, little guy * Dave Collins and Darnell Coles were question marks in March. Now they're exclamation points. * Nelson Simmons was a question mark too. Now he's a period. As in gone, period. * DINO-MITE!: Many felt the Lions had the best draft of all 28 NFL teams last week. But watch those Chicago Bears. On the final round, they picked a sleeper: Terry (Dac) Tall, a little-known defensive lineman who stands 14 feet and weighs a ton. Scouts are calling him a franchise player. Reached by phone, Tall said he grew up in "the pits." Here you see a picture of the rookie, who is rumored to share the same sense of humor as Mike Ditka. * PACKED PUNCH: The latest SPORT magazine lists the Three-H Boxing club -- Holmes, Hagler, Hearns -- as 1-2-3 money earners in 1985 sports. And you wonder why boxers keep coming back. * Actually, whenever I hear an ex-boxer returning -- like Sugar Ray Leonard saying he wants Marvelous Marvin Hagler -- I always think of Muhammad Ali. Before one of his comebacks, someone asked him, "Why are you doing it?" And he said: "I'm a fighter. A fighter fights." * Why don't we just give Mike Tyson the heavyweight belt and forget the whole thing? * SPORT also asked 26 baseball GMs to name the best manager. Whitey Herzog won. Sparky Anderson got no votes. How quickly they forget. * LETTERS, LETTERS: My thanks to the reader who sent back my Interview With Snow Chief column and wrote: "A jackass talks to a horse." I've never been called a horse before. * Isn't it strange how all this trouble with Moammar Khadafy began only after the Redskins cut John Riggins? Wait a sec. What the . . . ? Big John? . . . Or Big Mo?