Although I haven't checked, I'll bet there is a Hall of Fame for post hole diggers. Perhaps there is even a meerschaum Hall of Fame. A barber's hall of fame for sure, and if Winterville's Herschel Reeves isn't a member, there's no justice.

We know about the traditional halls of fame—baseball at Cooperstown, N. Y., football at Canton, Ohio, and basketball at Springfield, Massachusetts. They are all worth the price of admission, but like so many such halls, they must be subsidized to survive.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is in Cleveland, the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. There are a number of aviation halls of fame, mostly for pilots. What about the mechanics? There would be no heroics above if it weren't for the grease jockeys below.

There is a Mascot Hall of Fame and also a Sick and Wrong Tattoo Hall of Fame. It is not confined to a primary location, however. All you have to do is watch an NBA game on television.

South Dakota has the Rockhound and Lapidary Hall of Fame and Minnesota has a Pool Hall of Fame. No surprise, Minnesota Fats is a member. You can eat at the Cowgirl Hall of Fame restaurant in New York City.

Georgia has many halls of fame. There's one in Odum, population 459. Only reason I know about the Odum Hall of Fame is that a good friend, Truett Jarrard, has been elected. Surprisingly, we don't have a peanut hall of fame or a peach hall of fame.

The better known sports halls of fame are generally recognized for those they leave out than those who are admitted. Looks like the steroid abusers may not make it to Cooperstown! Amen. They are in denial about use of enhancements, so denial of membership for them is apropos.

My hometown of Athens has a sports hall of fame, and I am excited about this year's induction banquet. I am so elated that Agnew Peacock is being honored, I think I'll start "The Great American Hall of Fame" in his honor. He deserves election to that hall of fame, too. Agnew was an end for the Athens High Trojans, blocking and catching passes for none other than Francis Asbury Tarkenton. Agnew had to be arm twisted to send in a nomination form. Modest men are the ones who deserve recognition but who often deflect it.

I don't know much about Agnew the athlete, but I know plenty about Agnew, The World's Greatest Neighbor, a man who likes barbecue, ice tea and corn on the cob. He stands at rapt attention for the playing of the Start Spangled Banner. The strongest drink he ever consumed is a tart lemonade.

He can fix anything. He could jerry rig a battleship. He abhors the thought of retirement, which is why you see him getting his hands dirty every day as he goes about repairing and installing something or other at some construction site somewhere or other.

Sunday mornings are for church, the rest of the week, Saturday included, for earning his keep by the sweat of his brow. He can kill and skin a deer, but he wouldn't harm another human being unless his home was being invaded. Woe be unto the fool that tries that.

He loves Georgia football, vegetables, fire in winter, a full moon, and a four pound bass. He makes a Brunswick stew that is without peer. There's much more to this Great American. I could write a book about him, but I'll sign off with the above and a hearty toast to the Athens Hall of Fame for recognizing one who helped the headliners to their glory. Like selfless Great Americans always do.

After months of training, he parachuted into England, with instructions to destroy an airplane factory. He was picked up, at his request, by British Intelligence. Unbeknown to Chapman and his German Handlers, the Allies had broken the German code (another wonderful story) and knew he was coming. Now they had to determine where his real loyalty lay.

The story of how he develops into a successful double agent, his real danger of discovery, and his clever manipulation of people in frightening situations is absorbing and suspenseful. A British ship captain who helped in one dramatic adventure said this of him, "He lived up to his reputation as jail-bird very realistically." ("This was not, perhaps, entirely surprising.")

Ben Macintyre is a writer and editor who makes an already good story into an excellent adventure book. He also kindly reports in an epilogue what became of most of the major characters.

Agent Zigzag is available in paperback at the Mary Willis Library.