Re: our new (potential) team

["arsilva" <arsilva@ix.netcom.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>
To: Peter G. Toner <Peter.Toner@anu.edu.au>; Celtics@igtc.com
<Celtics@igtc.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 6:22 AM
Subject: Re: our new (potential) team


>
>It was I who used the TR quote about Travis, but Vonnegut used it in
>Slaughterhouse Five, not Breakfast of Champions (soon to be a major
>motion picture.)  But whoever made up Bananna Boy should get props,
>too, since in many ways Travis did look like a Banana (a resemblance
>that will be increased in his yellow Lakers uniform.)  He plays like a
>banana too.
>
>Josh
>

I believe Banana Boy came from a summary of a game done by somebody filling
in for Cooper. If I remember correctly it was something like "I could carve
a better defender out of a banana" I just can't remember who it was that did
the summary and who first called him Banana Boy.

Art