The "Fleer Thanks a Million" contest will give contestants
the chance to win $1M by hitting a baseball off a tee into any of
three, 5-foot square targets 200 feet from home plate at Camden
Yards and Dodgers Stadium. Winners were selected via a scratch-
and-win promo launched in February '96 and five contestants will
try for the money in Baltimore and five will try in L.A.
(Fleer)...Bay Area-based Sutter Mortgage has started a program to
target pro players and the staffs of the various Bay Area pro
teams in need of housing and financing (SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS
TIMES, 9/16 issue). ...The L.A. BUSINESS JOURNAL examines the
Coca-Cola /PepsiCo/Shaquille O'Neal situation in L.A. O'Neal's
agent, Leonard Armato, claims the potential conflict between
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo never came up during contract negotiations
with the Lakers (L.A. BUSINESS JOURNAL, 9/9 issue)....Delco
President & CEO Gary Dickinson, on sponsoring the IRL Galles
Racing Team: "We want to position ourselves to win at Indy. We
need to be in the entire series to be really competitive at Indy"
(INDIANAPOLIS STAR/NEWS, 9/15).
