August 01, 1983 | Volume 59, Issue 5

THE FAULT OF THE PROCESS

•Rick Monday, Dodger outfielder, on Braves Pitcher Phil Niekro's baffling knuckleball: "It actually giggles at you as it goes by."

There are those who need no introduction, and then there are those who need two. Take the author of this week's story on the yearling sold for $10.2 million at the Keeneland, Ky. sales. To us he's...

Slick Astro Shortstop Dickie Thon has become a prickly man at the plate

Yankee Reliever Rich Gossage "earned" the strangest save of his career last Sunday when, with New York leading 4-3, Kansas City's George Brett was called out after slugging a 1-0 Gossage pitch...

"I'm not going to be a company man anymore," says A's Outfielder Dwayne Murphy, who was talked into cutting down his swing in spring training in what proved to be an unsuccessful attempt to raise...

According to an SI survey of major-leaguers, these are the most hard-nosed players in baseball:

Cincinnati's Johnny Bench and Boston's Carl Yastrzemski have taken opposite postures about the fanfare surrounding their impending retirements. Bench has consented to brief ball park ceremonies in...

PETE LADD: The Milwaukee righthander had a part in all six Brewer victories with two wins and four saves. In 6⅓ innings he yielded four hits and two earned runs, walked none and struck out four.

Harald Johnson circled Manhattan the hard way, ahead of 27 others

"The letters almost always say, 'I've always loved baseball and would like a job in the game,' " says Bill Giles, president of the Phillies. "I get 500 letters like that every year, most from...

4—Bill Luster11—Illustration by Sam Q. Weissman16, 17—John Iacono18, 19—Jerry Wachter (top), John Iacono20, 21—Ronald C. Modra22, 23—Steve Powell24—Steve Powell (left), John Hanlon25—Graham...

CYCLING—LAURENT FIGNON won the 23-day, 2,315-mile Tour de France with an aggregate time of 105:07:52, 4:04 minutes better than that of Angel Arroyo.

MELVIN LENTZCRESWELL, ORE.Lentz, 24, was top logger for the third year at the World Championship Timber Carnival in Albany, Ore. He set a world record for single bucking, cutting through a log 24...

THE SYDNEY MAREE STORYSir:Over the years SI's voice has developed into a force for social justice. You've taken courageous stands, which often prompt letters beginning "Cancel my subscription...."...