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Thu 05 May 2007Rash of sobriety is all about liabilityAmerica at Large: In an episode recounted in Christopher Lehmann-Haupt's book Me and DiMaggio, a group of us were clustered about the locker of the Pittsburgh Pirates reliever Kent Tekulve after a 1979 World Series game when our mutual friend, the late Jack McLain, leaned back against an adjacent locker and accidentally toppled an open can of beer off a shelf, writes George Kimball.The can landed, face down, in one of Jim Bibby's loafers, into which it rapidly disgorged its gurgly contents. Bibby, a six-foot-five pitcher of the African-American persuasion, was in the shower when this happened, but McLain was mortified, not only over his carelessness, but at the prospect of how Bibby was going to react upon returning to discover the state of his Gucci.