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...Mets Lost Last Place, a 75,000-word treatise put together by Schaap and Newsweek Editor Paul D. Zimmerman in six weeks during July and August. It will be followed by I Can't Wait Until Tomorrow . . . 'Cause I Get Better-Looking Every Day, the Joe Namath biography that Schaap culled from some 50 tape hours of Broadway Joe's reflections...
After the Namath book, the transcriptions are backed up like 707s at J.F.K. The next two, set for late March publication, are diaries of professional Golfer Frank Beard and Detroit Tiger Bill Freehan, who were chosen, as Schaap puts it, "as much for their ability to articulate as for their ability to play the sport." One would-be football diarist from the Pittsburgh Steelers who wrote to ask for the Kramer treatment was rejected out of hand because he misspelled Pittsburgh. Diaries of Hockey Player Derek Sanderson, Basketballer Dave DeBusschere, Concert Violinist Erick Friedman, a Long Island rabbi, a Marine...
...life preserver labeled S.S. Unsinkable. Lately, following his censorship dustup with CBS and the network's subsequent banishment of his music and comedy series, it has seemed rather out of place. But last week the Smothers Brothers bobbed up again, bound for the national airwaves. Unlike Joe Namath, they have not been persuaded to rejoin their old employer. They have beaten the ban by forming what amounts to an ad hoc TV network of their...
Rozelle was adamant, and Namath finally got the message. Last week, following a round of secret conferences in Manhattan spaced over five days, the commissioner said: "I'm happy to announce that Joe will be back with the Jets. He is selling his interest in Bachelors III, and we consider the matter entirely closed." Resplendent in yellow and tan sports shirt atop pinstriped, black bell-bottom trousers, Namath said: "We all got a little tired of the situation. I still insist I haven't done anything wrong, but there is still that area of doubt, that question with...
With that, Namath flew off to Los Angeles, where the finishing touches are being put on the movie Norwood, which features Joe as an ex-Marine living in Manhattan. He promised to report to the Jets' Long Island training camp by week's end. Would he also quit playing the midnight cowboy around his old watering place, which is now known to wags as Bachelors II? "I think now," said Commissioner Rozelle wryly, "that Joe has a better understanding of guilt by association...