Tale Of The Tape

Athletic Background

Captained football team at St. Albans School in Washington. Played guard on Harvard's freshman hoops squad (15 field goals, 26 fouls).

Played baseball at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. Rode pine for Yale's freshman team.

Adult Sports Highlights

Teamed with Anfernee Hardaway to beat two Memphis-area schoolkids in 1995 shooting contest.

Managing general partner of Texas Rangers from 1989 to '94. Fifteen-handicap golfer.

Bloopers

Ruptured Achilles tendon during pickup game in 1994; said he had tried to make a helicopter dunk, "and I caught my elbow on the rim."

Okayed trade of Sammy Sosa to the White Sox for Harold Baines and Fred Manrique.

Sporting Quotes

Often likens nation's steady economic progress in Clinton years to "three yards and a cloud of dust."

Said on his Web site, "In politics, there is only one World Series game, on Election Day."

Testimonials

Harvard teammate Bob Kanuth: "You know how some players have a wonderful ability to see the whole court while they dribble? Al didn't."

Frank Ittner, Bush's Little League coach: "He was a good catcher. He'd catch balls that you would think couldn't be caught."