August 01, 1977 | Volume 47, Issue 5

Although owner Gene Autry lavished millions of his dollars on free agents, the green promise of spring has now turned into a hellish summer for his band of Californians, the stumbling tumbleweeds...

Bizarrely beautiful, this 77-pound plane with a tail for a nose could win an $86,000 prize for man-powered flight

The Colorado River offers stretches of serenity and beauty, of majesty and peace. This isn't one of them. But there is an exhilaration in running the river's rapids in a small wooden boat, rather...

The birds of Baltimore were supposed to fly low, very low, this season but fiery Manager Earl Weaver now has the patchwork Orioles battling the rich Red Sox and the richer Yankees for first place....

Supposed superstar Cedeno of Houston is playing more like a 'could have been'

ALL-STAR GAME

LARRY HISLE: "He's baseball's MVP," said Angel Pitcher Nolan Ryan after the Twin outfielder beat him 3-2 with an RBI bunt single. Hisle also batted .389, hit two homers and raised his...

In 1953, when Senior Writer Robert F. Jones was 19, he wrote a letter to Ernest Hemingway. He had read the author's books to tatters and was already an old and devoted hand with rod and gun. The...

Two years ago when NBC launched Grandstand, its weekend sports program, the show was intended to be a dramatic departure from the patterns of American television. Grandstand was supposed to cover...

Former amateur hotshot Hollis Stacy, who lost interest in the game until she made a visit to the Soviet Union, conservatively coasted to victory in the U.S. Open

The old bring-'em-back-alive idea worked for a little while, but after a forest fire swept through Bandelier National Monument, the small band of wild burros was suddenly caught in a much more...

"Destructive accidents" and drivers flying across the finish line ahead of their wild and unpredictable craft are as much a part of drag boat racing as rooster tails

TRYING TO ICE THE OLYMPICS

•Shug Jordan, former Auburn football coach, after a street was named for him: "I had visions of $100,000 homes and expensive condominiums lining the parkway. Then I read in the newspaper the other...

BICYCLING—BERNARD THEVENET of France won his second Tour de France, pedaling down the Champs Elysées in pouring rain to reach the finish of the 4,100-kilometer race just 48 seconds ahead of...

WENDY WHITEATLANTAWendy, 16, won the Southern girls' 18-and-under tennis championship. She is the first Georgian named to the U.S. Junior Wightman Cup team. A senior at Westminster School, Wendy...

4—Thomas Vanderschmidt6—Drawing by SQW37—Map by Paul Mendoza38—Jerry Cabluck42—Lane Stewart45, 46—Tony Triolo50—John G. Zimmerman

ROD CAREWSir:Bravo! As a longtime dedicated reader of SI, I wish to compliment you on the outstanding Rod Carew analysis by Ted Williams and John Underwood ("I Hope Rod Carew Hits .400," July 18)....