Jim Murray ...

One of the great hardy-perennial threads . . . always worthwhile, exposing the nippers to greatness . . . while reminding everyone else of what's possible, if you have the background knowledge, and the knack.

 

Another great Murray story. . .

He's one of the honorary pallbearers at Ben Hogan's funeral in July 1997. In the limo riding to the funeral is Dan Jenkins and Sam Snead, among others.

Snead, who could give Sergio whining lessons, is going off about Hogan getting all this ink and all this love for winning one of the Masters he beat Snead in. At the same time, he's wondering why he didn't get the amount of love Hogan did, despite winning all those majors.

After listening to this for a few moments, Murray had had enough.

"Jesus Christ, Sam. The guy's dead. Could you give the martyr routine a rest for just a LITTLE WHILE..."

 

Another great Murray line, from the Indy 500: "Gentlemen, start your coffins."

 

The greatest....

 

"But a race horse has to act like he's double-parked. He gets only months to prove he has been here."

Damn that's good sheet.

 

Wow... That's just tremendous...

 

I call bullshit on this one.
I don't believe it.

 

Call it all you want. Heard it from two sources who heard it from Murray himself.

 

Murray would tell the Snead Story. It was on instant recall.

 

Story is true.

 

I don't care if Dan Jenkins - the Hogan worshipping, sports writing hack that he is - told me it was true.
I would grab him by his wrinkly old gobbler neck and Texas two-step his ass back to Bugtussle, hollering 'Bullshit' in his good ear!

I know Snead had his faults, but having read a lot about him, interviewed him and talked with others about him, I really don't (want to) believe the story to be true.

I just can't swallow that story. Even if you did hear if from two other sources who heard it from a guy who was there.