April 16, 1990 | Volume 72, Issue 16

Frank Shorter first came to Boulder, Colo., in the summer of 1970, one year after he graduated from Yale and two years before he won the marathon at the Munich Olympics. Boulder's attraction, at...

These indoor games let you manage like Earl Weaver and hit like Mickey Mantle

This fan collects baseball cards in the pursuit of happiness, not crass cash

PRO BASKETBALL—The league's hottest player and team. Michael Jordan and the Bulls, soared to within 2½ games of the Pistons, the leaders in the Central Division. Chicago beat the Pacers 109-102,...

KAREN OLSSONNORWOOD, MASS.Karen, a senior at Norwood High, scored 9.3 on the uneven bars, 9.25 on the balance beam. 9.15 on the vault and 9.45 in the floor exercise to win her second straight...

High-paid athletes have duties off the field too

TEST CASE?

•Andy Van Slyke, Pittsburgh Pirate outfielder, after striking out three times in an exhibition game against St. Louis: "I was so bad, I couldn't have driven Miss Daisy home."

In Brooklyn, the Dodgers played in a typically asymmetrical bandbox. That changed when they moved into their current home.

Why has fielding improved? Compare infielder Nellie Fox's glove (above, left) with that of Ozzie Smith. Catching has declined though, despite larger mitts with deeper pockets (below).

In 1982, staff writer Tim Kurkjian, then a Rookie reporter for The Dallas Morning News, walked into Texas Rangers manager Don Zimmer's office looking a bit glum.

How different is the game today? On the field, it has become faster, with greater emphasis on defense, as this comparison of National League player statistics from 1950 and last season shows. Off...

Out there behind fences and screens and Plexiglas portholes, the denizens of the bullpen live on the fringes of the game, in a peculiar world of their own

Pretzels Pezzullo. Goober Zuber. Snitz Applegate. Cheese Schweitzer. Bow Wow Arft. Pea Soup Dumont. Yo-Yo Davalillo. Bunions Zeider. Sour Mash Daniels. Stormy Weatherly.

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The U.S. has its first World Cup medal in bobsledding since 1987, and Chuck Leonowicz is happy but broke. Again. No sooner had the bronze medal been hung around his neck after the last race of the...

For years the springtime ritual of rubbing down my Brooks Robinson-signature glove with neat's-foot oil marked the beginning of my personal baseball season. On some snowy evening in late February...

The money is lying there, just a few feet away from the blonde with the gun in her hand. Her dark blue eyes take on a steely glint as she zeros in on the mark. If she can pull this off, the money...

A tad over five feet tall and weighing only 95 pounds, Theodore Gordon hardly seemed to have the makings of a sporting giant. Born into a family of means in Pittsburgh in 1854, he lived for a...

When the phone rang, I figured it would be my sister Becky, ticked off. I was right. "Can you believe that garbage?" she wailed. "They fired her!"

JOE CARTER, JEERED IN CLEVELAND, WILL BE CHEERED IN SAN DIEGO. BUT HE REALLY JUST PLAYS FOR HIS FAMILY

KURT RAMBISThank you for the long-overdue article on Kurt Rambis (The Eyes Have It, March 19). The contributions Rambis makes to the Phoenix Suns cannot be compared with those of Larry Bird or...