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Curt flood of the St. Louis Cardinals is the best hitter on a team so good that on the rare occasion when a player makes a mistake it is cause for a clubhouse party game.

The wind itself seems to belong to Paul Elvstrom, the redoubtable Danish sailor who can race a boat like no one else in the world. Coles Phinizy writes about this salty genius.

Setting records on the salt flats may be easy for some people; not for a marshmallow foot named Bob Ottum, who abandoned his typewriter to take the wheel of a Mustang.