Lost + Found

In 1996 Chaffee, along with Southern Ute Unity Leader Alden Naranjo, started the Native Voices Foundation, a nonprofit program that has taught more than 1,000 Native Americans to ski. Resorts like Aspen and Vail provide ski lessons, lift tickets and equipment to Native Americans in return for ceremonial dancing demonstrations. Says Ross Anderson, 28, who is half Cheyenne-Arapaho and half Mescalaro Apache and is the world's No. 2-ranked speed skier, "When I first met her I thought, Cool! That's Suzy Chapstick. It's great to see someone like Suzy reaching out."

Chaffee is also working to have Native Americans honored at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. "I want to give our first Americans the chance to be heroes, like Cathy Freeman was in Sydney," she says.

Chaffee says the foundation is the greatest thing she's ever done. "As an athlete I was on planet Me, and it was an empty feeling," she says. "I've discovered that giving back is the real Olympic high."

Movie Kids

Maris Valainis, Hoosiers
He was an electrical engineering major at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis with no dramatic training when he beat out 400 other hoop dreamers for the role of Jimmy Chitwood, the Hickory High guard with a jump shot as pure as first love. Having caught the acting bug with Hoosiers in 1985, Maris Valainis headed to Hollywood and spent seven years struggling. Frustrated, he fell back on his other talent-he's a scratch golfer—and managed a couple of courses in California before deciding in March to give acting one last shot. "It was something I knew nothing about," says Valainis, 37, who is married and living in Orange County, Calif. "But once I did it, it got in my blood."

Max Pomeranc
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Yes, he still plays chess, but as a die-hard New York Mets fan he's a lot more interested in Bobby Valentine than Bobby Fischer. Indeed, if you're searching for 17-year-old Max Pomeranc, whose acting debut as chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin in the 1993 film Searching for Bobby Fischer prompted critics to swoon and interest in chess to boom, check out the ball fields of New York City. An outfielder and catcher for a traveling team this summer, Max gave up the movie business at age 10 after appearing in four films. His primary goal now is to start as a senior for the baseball team at his high school.

"I stopped acting to be a child," says Max, who before being cast as Josh was ranked among the top 100 chess players nationally in his age group. " Warner Brothers called a couple weeks ago and asked me to come see them. I told them that this wasn't the best year but that I'd stay in touch. Why would I give up my senior year of high school and a chance to play ball?"

George Wilkosz, The Natural
He was 13 years old and hawking fruits and vegetables at his parents' produce stand in Buffalo when one of the producers of The Natural walked by and asked George Wilkosz if he wanted to play the New York Knights' affable batboy, Bobby Savoy, As soon as Roy Hobbs's epic homer cleared the fences, however, Wilkosz's acting career ended. Over the past decade he has worked in retail and maintenance jobs around Buffalo and is hoping to catch on as a commercial artist. "Whenever I watch the movie, I feel as if I'm watching another person," says Wilkosz, 31. "I go, Wow, I was in that. It's just a great movie."

Art Work
Assembled here is a gallery of six retired athletes who are also accomplished artists. Does the art reflect the artist? Try to match each with his or her work below.

Tommy Heinsohn, 66