I went down to Cheers bar in Upper Darby Monday night to see if I could talk to its owner Bob "Herky" Herdelin. The bar was closed.



But as I was about to leave, across Market Street came the unmistakable figure of the former LaSalle College basketball star. Almost, 70 years old, Herdelin is 6-foot-4 and weighs 210 pounds.

For a man who has a self-proclaimed net worth of $80 million, he dresses like a college bartender, jeans and a Wharton sweatshirt. He invited me up to the room he lives in over the bar to talk about the closing of Cheers and being persecuted by Police Superintendent Mike Chitwood.



More to come.