Date:  Fri, 7 Nov 1997 10:05:36 -0500
From:  mmcdaniel <mmcdaniel_at_interval-miami[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]INTERVAL-INTL.COM>
Subject: basketball terms

   Dickie M. Heaberlin said:

   <<Back then when someone stayed back on offense in order to get a long
   pass and make an easy basketball, he was called a "radioman" or
   "snowbird." I never hear "radioman" any more and haven't for many
   years, and "snowbird" isn't used much any more either.>>

   In the early 80s we called such players "cherry-pickers," which I
   always assumed was a reference to the crane device.

   Matthew