A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN AGENT
HOW TO DEAL WITH THE AGENTS
The Baseball Alumni Team goes to bat for needy ex-players
October 19, 1987 | Rita Mae Brown
A noted author extols the rigor and excitement of the hunt
October 19, 1987 | Compiled by Amy Lennard
BASEBALL—The Minnesota Twins defeated the Detroit Tigers four games to one to win the American League pennant, and the San Francisco Giants led the St. Louis Cardinals three games to two in the...
October 19, 1987
ED BENHAMOCEAN CITY, MD.Benham, an 80-year-old retired jockey who started his running career eight years ago, set an age-group world record in the 10,000 meters at the Senior Olympics in Towson,...
The hometown fans are a most discerning lot
Those of you debating the origins of baseball, take notice. There's evidence suggesting that the date of creation should be pushed back—not by years, or even decades, but to a different century....
WORDS AND DEEDS
•Don Baylor, Minnesota Twins DH, on why he would say no if George Steinbrenner offered him the Yankees' managing job: "I came into this game sane, and I want to leave it sane."
October 19, 1987 | Steve Wulf
October 19, 1987 | Donald J. Barr
Senior editor John Papanek Well remembers his first brief meeting with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar back in 1975. "I introduced myself in the tunnel as he came off the floor in Cleveland," says Papanek,...
October 19, 1987 | Peter Gammons
Frank Tate whipped favored Michael Olajide to win the IBF middleweight crown
October 19, 1987 | Ron Mix
October 19, 1987 | Edited by Gay Flood
WALDEN PONDI read with great pleasure Robert Sullivan's POINT AFTER (Aug. 17) on keeping open Walden Pond (pictured below). The essay brought back fond memories of my English literature classes at...
OFFENSE: Michigan State senior tailback Lorenzo White gained 185 yards on 34 carries and scored two TDs in the Spartans' 17-11 upset of Michigan. White is now the Big Ten's second alltime leading...
October 19, 1987 | Hank Hersch
For humorists, there was a nine-year-old boy Parading around Princeton's Palmer Stadium Saturday afternoon holding a cardboard sign that pleaded, PLEASE WIN BEFORE I GROW UP. For symbolists, there...
As the influence of sports agents becomes more pervasive, the home run hitters, touchdown throwers and slam-dunkers are at risk of being overshadowed by dollars-and-cents operatives whose most...
Chasing after clients, agents are able to use every trick in the book
You may think that the world needs another book on marathoning about as much as the marathon needs another mile, but Sandy Treadwell's The World of Marathons (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $24.95)...
How LaRue Harcourt's baseball player clients were driven to tears
With agents' help, ex-outfielder Garry Maddox made a fortune
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