April 18, 1983 | Volume 58, Issue 16

Any man who has lived long enough to be able to read Shakespeare for pleasure and who is mature enough to be able to forecast the secondary effects of his actions has learned a fair amount indeed...

We'd broken off the hunt to eat lunch, retiring with heavy game bags to the shack next to which the trucks were parked. Mr. George propped himself regally upon a tailgate, a sow's-meat sandwich in...

When you mention billiards, most people think of pool—eight-ball, nine-ball, call-shot, rotation and the like, which are pocket billiard games. When you mention three-cushion billiards, most...

4—Mark Perlstein25—Illustration by Sam Q. Weissman30-32—George Tiedemann33—Tony Triolo (top), Jerry Wachter34, 35—George Tiedemann40, 41—Focus On Sports42—Carl Skalak47—Ron Ross48—Heinz...

PRO BASKETBALL—The postseason math is simple in the NBA's Eastern Division. There's no way three teams—Atlanta (41-38), New York (40-38) and Washington (40-38)—can fit into the final two of the...

DAVID GRIEGOPROVIDENCE

NATIONAL LEAGUE SUPERIORITYSir:I commend Jim Kaplan on his American League vs. National League story (It's the Nationals' Pastime, April 4). I've been a dedicated Phillies fan for years and am...

Do you know that when Nate Colbert drove in 111 runs for the light-hitting San Diego Padres in 1972, he set a major league record? For what? Percentage of a team's runs batted in, by one player in...

THE DEATH OF PISCATORIAL PARADISE

•Otis Birdsong, New Jersey Nets guard, enumerating the three certainties of life: "Death, taxes and my jump shot."

Turn to page 68, baseball fans. There you are going to find that BASEBALL'S WEEK, an SI feature for nearly 25 years, has taken on a new dimension and a new name. Now called INSIDE PITCH, it has...

In tennis, the racket thrower is considered the lowest form of life. Posh clubs tolerate his outbursts but wish he would join the rival outfit across town. On public courts other players shake...

As a play 'K2' is wordy and often tedious, but as a show it truly soars

...was up in the air during the off-season, but Buddy Bell is still with Texas

Opening Day doesn't always open easily. Nowhere was that truer last week than in Baltimore. At Memorial Stadium, banners with the names of the American League teams and cities flapped in the...

Texas knuckleballer Charlie Hough, who was 16-13 last year, is ahead of schedule following arthroscopic surgery on his right knee during spring training. Instead of pulling up an easy chair while...

BEER HERE: When Indian President Gabe Paul heard that a brew at Cleveland Stadium would cost $2, he protested, "That's too much." Paul's frothing paid off: Prices were dropped to $1.30 and $1.25,...

ANDRE THORNTON: After starting the year with a homer, Cleveland's designated hitter kept at it, going 10 for 16 overall, with two doubles, two homers and nine RBIs, two of them game-winners.

Montreal swore by its offense until Buffalo got two shutouts in the playoffs

The surprise star of the U.S. Short Course meet was 6'1" Tammy Thomas