May 14, 1979 | Volume 50, Issue 20

Stealing Home, Philip O'Connor's amiable and entirely engaging first novel (Knopf, $8.95), has to do with a young father named Benjamin Dunne who becomes coach of a Pee Wee League baseball team in...

Opera singers, athletes? Those paranoid, overpampered, overweight bags of air who won't go outside for fear of catching a cold, who speak in monosyllables for fear of tiring their voices, who flee...

PRO BASKETBALL—NBA: All looked lost for Phoenix, already down 2-0 in its semifinal series with Seattle, when Center Alvan Adams had to leave in the first quarter of Game 3 with a sprained left...

20, 21—Heinz Kluetmeier22, 23—Bryan Moss (top), Jerry Cooke (left), Bill Strode25—Jerry Cooke28, 29—Manny Millan30—John Iacono37—Richard Mackson (top), Peter Read Miller38, 39—Robert Hagedohm...

LUCILLE KENYONJACKSONVILLEKenyon, a 68-year-old grandmother, has logged 42,000 miles in trail ride competition and training over the last 29 years. Aboard her horse Diamond Miss, she completed her...

LISTSSir:A List of Lists (April 30) by Phil Pepe and Zander Hollander was a total delight. I had thought, before reading it, that I was the only one in the world left who still remembered who Bill...

Einer Jensen contemplated the next move. A venturesome knight was threatening his king's rook, while his queen's bishop was in jeopardy at the hands of an upstart pawn. He decided to save the rook.

HOT WALKER

•Jimmy Demaret, after golfing with Bob Hope: "Bob has a beautiful short game. Unfortunately, it's off the tee."

Spectacular Bid and his 19-year-old jockey, Ronnie Franklin, confounded the critics with a come-from-behind win in the Kentucky Derby, triggering talk of yet another Triple Crown

In the whole joyful evening, there was only one small disappointment. "Any Bloodys?" asked Ronnie Franklin, rummaging around in the tack room refrigerator an hour after the race. "What did they do...

With his team hurting because bullpen ace Rich Gossage is injured, the game's best starter offered to relieve—and promptly won

Together again thanks to a judge, all the top Indy drivers will be at the Speedway this weekend for qualifying—although some are hot under the collar. Robert F. Jones reports on the battle to...

Mike Nykoluk, the assistant coach of the Rangers, chewed vigorously on a large, unlit cigar as he studied an instant replay of a sliding save made by Islander Goaltender Chico Resch on a shot by...

Alberto Juantorena and his band of fellow Cubans came out smoking in the UCLA meet, but Americans beat them to the tape every time

The very title, The American Came, indicates that this well-made film intends to operate on a number of levels of meaning. The first, of course, is to produce a documentary, an authentic portrayal...

Roy Smalley, the American League's best, has brains—and now some brawn

AL WEST

JIM SLATON: The Milwaukee righthander threw two complete-game victories—beating Cleveland 8-0 on two hits and Toronto 6-1 on eight—to lower his earned run average to 1.66, best among the league's...

The swift, aggressive French national team came to the Meadowlands and gave the U.S. national team a lesson in world-class soccer—by socking it to them

All eight teams in the women's league lost a bundle, but not their optimism

And in today's bustling game that is a worthy achievement. But a contender Stu Goldstein may remain indefinitely unless he develops a champion's killer instinct

Playing superbly, John McEnroe took on the world's best players, Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors, back to back and overwhelmed them to win the WCT championship

Larry Kenon and fellow Spur egos have enfevered a win-starved populace

Back in 1918, when residents of South Philadelphia's lower-middle-class ethnic pocket were loath to spend their hard-earned dimes on anything beyond sustenance, three recent high school graduates...