June 03, 1968 | Volume 28, Issue 22

ANOTHER ROAD PICTURE

•Pie Traynor, Pittsburgh third baseman and Hall of Famer, on low-scoring baseball games: "The ball is dead. There is no doubt of it. I seen it happen in the past. It goes in cycles—dead ball, live...

Ted Williams, baseball's last .400 hitter and one of its most controversial personalities, breaks a lifelong silence about his career and begins his own story, Hitting Was My Life.

Gold scissors snipped a green-and-white ribbon last week and the new Belmont Park was open, a 430-acre, $30 million demonstration that some degree of unhurried and even gracious civilization can...

When the Olympic Games dispute came to a head this spring, Tex Maule filed a story for us from Lausanne, Switzerland (SI, April 29) on the International Olympic Committee's controversial decision...

Sandy Koufax was golfing at La Costa Country Club, just north of San Diego, and one of his efforts winged into the rough. "No, no," a pro told him. "Get that left arm all the way around!...

Nobody in his division was willing to fight Bob Foster, let alone give him a shot at the light-heavyweight title, so he quit. Then a television show brought him back, and a new manager led him to...

Unless your head and your hips are positioned properly at the exact moment of impact, there is little chance you will hit the golf ball the way you intended. Actually, the position of your head...

Experience paid off at the Olympic trials as two veterans, recalling past competitive errors, coolly carried through to victories based on finesse

The last time the Italians were beaten in a World Championship the French did it. This time, our expert predicts, an American team will win

AMERICAN LEAGUE

When Los Angeles Manager Walt Alston made a last-minute decision to start Bob Bailey instead of Ken Boyer at third base Tuesday, he walked over and personally told Cardinals' Manager Red...

BOWLING—JIM STEFANICH of Joliet, Ill. beat Billy Hardwick of Louisville 208-211, 226-225, 246-180, 233-216 to win the PBA $65,000 All-Star championship in Garden City, N.Y. Overall, Stefanich had...

Carol Burkland, 11, of La Mirada. Calif., won 27 of her first 28 races this year and set two AAU track marks for her age group by running the 220-yard dash in 27.8 (lowering the record by 0.3) and...

4—Gerry Cranham22, 23—Richard Raphael, Los Angeles Times, Herb Scharfman, AP, Fred Kaplan-Black Star, Lee Balterman, Russ Halford, Tony Triolo (12)25—Curt Gunther-Camera V51—AP, Lensmen...

SEDENTARY ATHLETESSirs:Although I enjoyed Professor McCormick's sprightly article (Score One for Today's Students, May 20), I take vigorous exception to several of his assertions.