Sports: Dick Schaap

Here are some things I learned from "Dick Schaap As Told To Dick Schaap".

• Cassius Clay's middle name is Marcellus. (There was also an abolitionist called Cassius Marcellus Clay.)
  
• "Oh, God!" and "Kramer vs. Kramer" were both based on books by Avery Corman.
  
• Joseph Heller's original title was "Catch-18", but Leon Uris had just published "Mila 18" so his publisher made him change it to "Catch-22".
  
• Texas oil mogul Algur Hurtle Meadows owned over one million dollars worth of fake paintings bought from a forger named Legros. (Are any of them at the Meadows Museum at SMU?)
  
• Danny Kaye was one of the original owners of the Seattle Mariners.
  
• Jazz expert Phil Schaap was Dick's cousin.
  
• The original sports impostor was Barry Bremen. (And his cute daughter sneaked into a Superbowl party pretending to be Gwyneth Paltrow.)
  
• John Updike once wrote an essay for Forbes  called "Where Is The Space To Chase Rainbows?" Did this inspire Monty Burns' autobiography, "Will There Ever Be A Rainbow?" ?
  

Thanks again to Shell for the read.