June 16, 1980 | Volume 52, Issue 25

Fred Watts, in his VIEWPOINT (SI, May 26), argues that moving the Orioles from Baltimore to Washington, D.C. is a bad idea because our capital is a "lousy baseball town." I agree that the Orioles...

OPENING UP TO CHANGE

•Billy Martin, Oakland manager, on his success at teaching fundamentals to his new team: "I taught in New York, but not too many listened. The players here have bigger ears."

Temperence Hill (far left) was misspelled in the official Belmont program and miscast as a 53-1 shot, but he splashed to a stunning win

On their toes for the first leg of the Grand Slam, Bjorn Borg and Chris Evert Lloyd won the French Open, his fifth and her fourth

The 1980 Cardinals aren't the first team to discover that even the best-hitting club will lose if it doesn't also have good pitching. Take, for example, the 1958 Phillies, who tied the Braves for...

It's a wide-open open, at least in the beginning, for 156 golfers (138 pros, 18 amateurs) from Adams (John G. of Midland, Texas) to Zoeller (Fuzzy of New Albany, Ind.). When the crunch comes at...

NL EAST

GEORGE BRETT: By homering in three consecutive games, driving across 11 runs, scoring seven times, stealing two bases and batting .433, the 27-year-old third baseman helped Kansas City remain in...

The pipes, the drums, the thousands of voices raised in song bestirred Jim Watt, the WBC lightweight titleholder, to victory over former Olympic champ Howard Davis

The snow-topped Tetons shimmering in the Wyoming sun; a wild horse grazing in a marsh off the coast of Georgia; the howl from a coyote in the Arizona desert; the wind sighing through the pines of...

A year ago it was my great pleasure to comment in this space on a marvelous little book, Don't Let Baseball Die, the work of an unknown writer named Art Hill and an unknown publisher called Avery...

On June 11, 1832, at 2:30 a.m., Mensen Ernst was wide awake. Although he had been out until midnight, he felt fit and alert. He never slept more than three or four hours at a time anyway, and he...

20, 21—Dan Baliotti22—Tony Triolo (top), Jerry Cooke23—Walter Iooss Jr.26—Tony Tomsic29—Tony Tomsic (bottom left), Heinz Kluetmeier (2)30-32—Lane Stewart35—Lori Grinker36, 37—Lori Grinker (left),...

BASEBALL—Arizona defeated Hawaii 5-3 in the final game to win the 34th College World Series in Omaha.

VAUGHN BROADNAXXENIA, OHIOVaughn, a 6'3", 235-pound senior wrestler for Xenia High, had a 34-0 (30 pins) record and won the Ohio state heavyweight title. Also a fullback, he ran for 802 yards last...

THE CUPSir:I am a proud New York Islander fan of eight long, frustrating, beautiful years' standing. Tears of joy came to my eyes when I watched Denis Potvin and Clark Gillies hoist the Stanley...