April 13, 1970 | Volume 32, Issue 15

Part of baseball's storied past was a hirsute nine called the House of David, which traveled from town to town playing the best in local semipro talent. The bearded players were the product of a...

BASKETBALL—NBA: Semifinal playoff results (see page 22), East: Milwaukee 4, Philadelphia 1; New York 3, Baltimore 3. West: Atlanta 4, Chicago 1; Phoenix 3, Los Angeles 2. Final regular-season...

Chris Horpel, unbeaten in 36 matches in the 148-pound class, pinned 34 opponents this season for a national prep record in closing out his career at Newport Harbor (Calif.) High. He was named the...

Cover—Walter Iooss Jr. and Glenn Palmer-Smith23—Heinz Kluetmeier24, 25—James Drake (2), Sheedy & Long26—James Drake28, 29—Roy DeCarava30—Neil Leifer31, 32—Bruce Roberts-Rapho Guillumette38,...

CIRCUS DAYSSirs:Roy Blount's article on the Oakland A's (Out! Short to Yellow to Red, March 30) presents the claim that a lot of people stayed away from the ball games "even though" Charles Finley...

Questions of artistic integrity seldom arise with baseball documentaries. But when Bud Greenspan tried to sell the networks a film version of Lawrence Ritter's minor classic, The Glory of Their...

LET'S SHOOT POLITICIANS, TOO

•Alex Karras, Detroit Lions tackle who was once suspended for an entire season for betting, dourly on Denny McLain's half-season suspension for a book-making try: "I must have been a bad, bad boy...

Yoshi Hayasaki (above), who won the all-around title at the NCAA meet, showed again that the Japanese are the world's best gymnasts because they gladly suffer interminable workouts—and slaps in...

The famed green coat of the Masters champion is awarded once again. Dan Jenkins writes of the man who wins golf's gladdest rag, how he won and who he defeated.

This week, beginning on page 48, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED presents its 16th pre-season report on major league baseball. As always we lean heavily on the knowledge and experience of our writers. Bill...

The contagion that is the New York Mets continues to spread. Throughout Florida this spring, where the Mets replaced the sun as a tourist attraction, the dramatic impact of their five-month-old...

Modern technology is rapidly taking over the prerogatives of the groundkeepers in the National League. Ever since baseball moved out of the cow pastures, stadium crews have curried playing fields...

The Baltimore Orioles won more games than any other team in the American League during the 1960s, and they are expected to win more games than anybody else this year. But after the Orioles lost to...

There are plenty of curious factors to ponder in the American League West. Lefthander Jim Kaat predicts that he will win more games for the Minnesota Twins because he has had a calcium deposit the...

In one of his duck-shooting articles Ed Zern compared decoys moored outside a blind to trucks parked outside a diner. The proprietor of a Pennsylvania diner, it is said, was so struck with the...

Last month the Lions Club in Copenhagen asked 106 of the city's more famous residents to do paintings which the club could exhibit in the town hall and then auction off for charity. Tennis star...

Tom McMillen, the country's best high school player, wows a Pittsburgh crowd and leaves coaches shaking as he prepares to pick his college

On and on grows the number of colts with a chance at the roses

Tranquilizers were useful at the close of the NHL's frantic last weekend as the Hawks won the East title and the Rangers made the playoffs

If you're thinking of adopting a cat instead of buying one, my advice to you is—quite simply—don't. For years before the death of a faithful feline friend, I had read imploring ads in the PETS FOR...