June 18, 1984 | Curry Kirkpatrick
June 18, 1984
In sweltering heat Swale (right) cooked his Belmont rivals, leading Preakness champion Gate Dancer (left) and Play On (center) into the stretch in the 1½-mile race. Swale kept his cool to the...
Oh, what a relief it is for the Brewers to have the mustachioed Rollie Fingers back in top shape after a disabling elbow injury
June 18, 1984 | Anthony Cotton
Lynn Darling, 32, whose story on heavyweight boxer Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa begins on page 64, spent most of the last eight years writing features for The Washington Post Style section on a...
June 18, 1984 | Dan Levin
Dara Torres, the world's best in the 50 freestyle, is stretching to make the U.S. Olympic team in the 100
"Would you mind running that by me again?" asked the bewildered policeman from his squad car. He had been dispatched late that November afternoon to the parking lot of an industrial plant on the...
Cal State-Fullerton won the NCAA championship behind Eddie Delzer
June 18, 1984 | Henry Hecht
The Brewers, who used to be Harvey's Wallbangers, are a woeful 12th in the American League in offense, and the lack of support is getting to Don Sutton, who is 3-5 despite a respectable 3.52 ERA....
Giants second baseman Manny Trillo is getting "shock" treatments for his left hand, broken May 13. A Physio-Stim generates electric impulses to stimulate bone growth. He'll be back next month.
Last Tuesday night, White Sox first-base coach Dave Nelson made an unusual declaration of love. With the connivance of technicians who work the White Sox' message board and Diamond Vision screen,...
GREG LUZINSKI: The White Sox DH ended a season-long slump (one homer, 11 RBIs) by becoming only the 10th player in big league history to hit grand slams in consecutive games, against the Twins.
Zola Budd won a brave, barefoot 3,000 to acquire an Olympic berth
The Baltimore Blast won its first MISL title, exploding against St. Louis
CBS's Mort Sharnik gave early boosts to Ray Mancini and Hector Camacho
June 18, 1984 | Lynn Darling
June 18, 1984 | Harry Middleton
No real game birds had come, just three coots that passed low over the marsh as they headed toward the oak ridge at its edge. The sun was all light and no heat, a cold January sun. Remnants of...
June 18, 1984 | N. Brooks Clark
I'd be pretty dumb if all of a sudden I started being something I'm not.—YOGI BERRA
June 18, 1984
2, 3—Ronald C. Modra4—Chuck Solomon9—Illustration by Sam Q. Weissman12—Phil Hoffman22-24—Peter Read Miller27—Carl Skalak30, 34, 38—Heinz Kluetmeier (top left)40—Tony Duffy42—Richard Mackson (top),...
June 18, 1984 | Compiled by JOY DUCKETT CAIN
U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM QUALIFIERS
June 18, 1984
CHUCK HOUSMANDES MOINESHousman, 72, a retired meat packer, won his second national over-70 handball title of the year, defeating Steve Subak of Minneapolis 21-19, 21-12 for the singles...
June 18, 1984 | Edited by Gay Flood
MAGIC AND BIRDSir:Many thanks to Bruce Newman for his excellent piece on the Laker-Celtic/Magic Johnson-Larry Bird rivalry (Together at Center Stage, June 4). This championship matchup is the best...
THE RELUCTANT OLYMPIAN
•Tom Tunnicliffe, ex-University of Arizona quarterback, after being passed over in the NFL draft, supposedly because he's only six feet tall: "Any coach who feels I'm too short or too small to...
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