Brunch (1896); Dime (1995)

MILT COHEN uncmlt at JUNO.COM
Fri Feb 27 12:05:55 UTC 2004


Perhaps some of these "dime" plays aren't worth a plugged nickle - maybe.

Milt Cohen
Chatsworth, Ca.

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:54:42 -0500 Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
writes:
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> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Tom Dalzell wrote:
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> >   From the Chicago Sun-Times, March 18, 1994, page 132, by Dan
> Cahill:
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> Here's a little earlier:
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> THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
> April 2, 1993, Friday, HOME FINAL EDITION
> SECTION: SPORTS DAY; MAVERICKS UPDATE; Pg. 4b
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> Harper stressed he doesn't have to have the ball in his hands to be
> effective and added that he wants, "to be on the end of some of
> those
> dimes (assists) he's dropping. ' Jackson said he felt the two showed
> in
> the five games they did play together that they are compatible.
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> Fred Shapiro
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