August 07, 1989 | Volume 71, Issue 6

Leigh Steinberg lives on the telephone. On each of the five floors of his office-part-time home in Berkeley, Calif., there are phone cords that reach out to decks overlooking the Bay; he's on the...

Cuba's Javier Sotomayor broke the eight-foot high jump barrier

BUS STOPFranz Lidz's article (The Boys on the Bus, July 3) reminded me of a story my uncle tells. He's a bus driver for a New England line, and in the early 1970s he drove the Springfield Kings of...

The peripatetic McCallums made like fish—and Jamie even caught one—during a Minnesota town's river festival

OH, WHAT A DOLL!Who says superstitions are bunk? Not the White Sox. Chicago pitcher Jerry Reuss bought a bobbing-head White Sox doll during the All-Star break and brought it to the second-half...

Throughout his 15-year professional career, outfielder Lonnie Smith has toyed with the idea of quitting baseball. In 1975 he resigned from his Class A team for a day, and in '80 he became so...

LISTEN TO GOOD OL' JOE FOSS, THE HEART AND SOUL OF THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION, AS HE SHOOTS FROM THE HIP ABOUT THE EVILS OF GUN CONTROL

"I figure you only get one great idea in a lifetime," says Mike Hall, who keeps his brainstorm in a padlocked room in back of the Braves dugout at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium. Behind a door that...

The national rifle Association was founded in 1871, but the organization as we know it dates from 1977. That was the year the gun-club faction—an old guard of "redneck shooters," as they liked to...

ARENA FOOTBALL—Detroit (3-1) took over first place by defeating previously unbeaten Pittsburgh 61-34 in a game played in Richfield, Ohio. The Drive opened in high gear as George LaFrance returned...

CHAD PIEDISCALZOPULASKI, VA.Chad, 9, led the Bowers Plumbing Outlaws to a 14-0 record and the championship of the Pee Wee League in the Town of Pulaski Youth Soccer League. He scored 60 goals...

A founder of fantasy baseball has second thoughts

•Howard Johnson, New York Mets third baseman, on Royals slugger Bo Jackson: "Maybe they should see if his body is corked."