Schmidt threw out the first pitch of the Phillies' World Series game against the New York Yankees Saturday (AP Photo)

Hall-of-fame third baseman Mike Schmidt has put on the market his home in the fancy Admiral’s Cove in Jupiter.

Schmidt bought the 8,500-square-foot home pre-construction in 1991 — just two years after he played his last game. He paid $425,000 for the land then another $1 million to build.

Now, he wants $4.5 million for it.

Realtor Rob Thomson, who has the listing with Admiral’s Cove Realty’s Dick Capozzi, said Schmidt, 60, and his wife, Donna, are looking for another home in Admiral’s Cove.

“They just want a change,” said Thomson, of Waterfront Properties. “The house was perfect for them and their two kids. Now the kids are gone, they want something that fits their lifestyle.”

With 548 career homers, Schmidt is No. 14 on the list of the top Major League homerun hitters.

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Michael Jordan, as he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame two weeks ago (AP photo)

The plans for former NBA star and basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan’s new castle in Jupiter are in.

And the stack of papers recently submitted to town officials by Jordan’s architects, contractor, consultants and lawyer show that residents of the Bears Club, a posh golf community, better get ready for something the size of a Walmart.

The developer, Lavelle Construction Corp., submitted applications for a 37,942-square-foot building, with 26,000 square feet under air conditioning. There’s a cottage and guard gate.

In all, Jordan’s crib will have 11 bedrooms, and a yet-to-be-determined number of bathrooms.

The house, at 172 Bears Club Road, will dwarf most in the north side of Palm Beach County, and all around it at the Jack Nicklaus development.

Jordan's property (Courtesy Google Maps)

According to property appraiser records, most homes around Jordan’s are about 10,000 square feet.

Jordan’s slamming down $7,627,669 to build the two-story home, which will feature an elevator, a grand stairway, 10-foot ceilings and a giant fireplace.

So far, the Hanes undies pitchman has paid $152,553 to the town in permits and other fees.

Jordan, 46, bought two adjacent lots at the Jack Nicklaus-founded Bears Club last year for a total $4.8 million. He’s got three acres of wooded land adjacent to a golf course. Golf, and the privacy of a gated community, is what caught Jordan’s attention.

The sheer size of the soon-to-go-up digs, slightly smaller than the beachfronter in Palm Beach that Donald Trump sold for $100 million last year, is already having some local environmentalists chomping at the bit.

“Who needs that kind of a footprint,” said Joanne Davis, a growth management specialist with 1000 Friends of Florida. “It’s insane, a waste. Cities see nothing more than a tax base in these giant homes, but I can’t imagine anyone needing anything like that, except to show off.

“This house is going to require an enormous use of natural resources for no good reason.”

While Air Jordan’s manager in Washington, D.C., hasn’t commented (for reasons of security and privacy, she said), town officials said the part-owner of the NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats is well within code.

“The Bears Club was specifically designed for large lots,”said town zoning principal planner Scott Tatcher. “The Bears Club has done a good job setting aside upland pine areas and wetlands to offset construction. It’s true other homes are in the 10,000-square-feet range, but he is building on two lots.”

In yet another not-so-green move, the six-time NBA champion Chicago Bull has had most tall trees on the property taken out.

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Professional autograph hounds hound Burt Reynolds outside the Maltz Theatre in Jupiter Sunday night with photos from Deliverance. Reynolds, 73, then had to be helped into his waiting black sedan by two people. “He looked a little out of it,” a spywitness said. Reynolds, the veteran of such classics as Smokey and the Bandit and The Longest Yard, attended a fundraiser for the cancer-stricken Wellington filmmaker Aaron Wells.

(Fred Montana/Special to Page2Live)

Bored even before the weekend starts? Check out these potentially fun affairs:

– Pistache, the excellent Parisian food place on lower Clematis in West Palm Beach, celebrates its first anniversary tonight. The champagne’s supposed to flow freely (and free of charge) at 6 p.m. There’s also a band and a three-course meal for the French socialist price of 35 bucks . . .

– Then, just cross the bridge into Palm Beach for a Brazilian carnival party at the reborn 251 Sunrise watering hole . . .

– Those on the T-Coast may want to get up a tad early Saturday morning for the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour. It’s at 7:17 a.m. Remember. The shuttle program is set to end next year . . .

– Sunday evening, silver-screen legend Burt Reynolds and other area film biz standouts are hosting a fundraiser for the cancer-stricken Wellington film-maker Aaron Wells. Broadway star Avery Sommers and local actress Suzanne Niedland. It all starts at 6 p.m. at the Maltz Theater in Jupiter . . .

(Alina Lambiet/Special to Page2Live)

Their tiny nails painted and all, these chihuahuas patiently wait their turn in the K-9 costume contest at the no-kill dog rescue Safe Harbor’s 22nd Annual Celebrity Dogwash Saturday at Carlin Park in Jupiter.

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At home in Jupiter, big screen legend Burt Reynolds was dreading the moment he’d hear that his friend and co-star in several films, Dom DeLuise, had died.

That moment became reality late Monday, as porky bon vivant DeLuise passed away at 75. He’d been admitted at a Los Angeles hospital with kidney failure and respiratory problems earlier in the day.

Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise in Cannonball Run. (Courtesy 20th Century Fox)

Often playing the clown to Reynolds’ tongue-in-cheek straight man, DeLuise and the debonnaire Reynolds were  together in some of the biggest box office hits of the early 1980s, including The Cannonball Run I and II, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

“I was thinking about this the other day,” Reynolds said through his publicist, Jeffrey Lane. “As you get older and you lose people you love, you think about it more and I was dreading this moment.

“Dom always made you feel better whenever he was around and there’ll never be another like him. I never heard him say an unkind word about anyone.

“I’ll miss him very much.”

. . . County star Alan Jackson apparently didn’t get tired enough from his gig at the Kiss Country Chili Cookoff Sunday afternoon in Broward. A nightscape spywitness tells me Jackson, a resident of Jupiter Island, motored back north in a limo and hit the stage at the Square Grouper in Jupiter for an impromptu two-hour set. Jackson even invited surprised barflies to sing along on stage. That’s when he wasn’t buying rounds for everybody . . .

 . . . Cabaret singer Sylvia McNair will take advantage of her presence in Palm Beach for a slew of concerts at The Colony to sing for the participants of Saturday’s Komen Race for the Cure in West Palm Beach. I’m told the two-time Grammy winner is scheduled to perform at the post-race ceremony. McNair herself is a breast cancer survivor . . .  

The battle for the assets of slain software executive Jessica Kalish just became more complicated.

Jessica Kalish (left) and Carol Anne Burger

A well-known feminist writer-therapist-new age guru, Wendy Hunter Roberts, Monday filed for her piece of Kalish’s estate.

Roberts contends she enjoyed “a very close personal relationship” with Kalish and a will that has yet to be found made her Kalish’s beneficiary.
Roberts joins Kalish’s mother and the family of Kalish’s killer, Carol Anne Burger, among those vying for what could amount to $1 million.

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It took nearly a year for word to leak out that Tiger Woods is building his momma a 22,000-square-foot home near Jupiter. I’m told he makes everyone on the project, from architects to truck drivers, sign a confidentiality agreement that could get workers fired for talking about it. (For more on this story, click here)

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That Tiger Woods, such a secretive guy!

The golf prodigy is quietly investing even more heavily in our fair area’s real estate.

According to Palm Beach County records, Woods bought through a trust two plots in an unincorporated area near Jupiter for a total $2.4 million – and neighbors say it’s to build his mom a 22,000-square-foot mansion.

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