April 15, 1991 | Volume 74, Issue 14

Baseball's oldest stadiums have found they can't generate revenue the way their newer cousins can

"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" was written by two guys who had never been to a game

Baseball has percentages, ratios and averages in numbing abundance, but, the author asks, where are the stats when you really need them?

WhiffedAgainst Cincinnati Reds righthander Tim Layana, actor Tom Selleck, 46, in a spring-training at bat for the Detroit Tigers, in Lakeland, Fla. Selleck, who played baseball in high school and...

Jim FrauenhoffSTUART, FLA.

As baseball's new season begins, the previous one recedes into dim memory, even for the World Series champions

A dad, jaded by access to baseball's innermost sanctums, views the sport anew, thanks to his young boy

[Thumb Up]To David Robinson of the San Antonio Spurs, for giving $108,000 to the "I Have a Dream" Foundation, which will use the money to ensure the college education of 90 fifth graders at San...

Dave Winfield, Angel outfielder, on hitting in front of newly acquired Dave Parker in the batting order: "You're going to hear pitchers saying, 'Nobody told me there'd be Daves like this.' "

Tommy Lasorda is going public: Tommy Lasorda Foods, that is, makers of a line of pasta sauces developed by the Los Angeles manager. Fans attending Grapefruit League games this spring often found...

The Masters, golf's most storied tournament, will be played this week at Augusta National. SI's John Garrity has selected the 10 most momentous strokes in the Masters' 54-year history.

Baltimore Oriole slugger Boog Powell—half of him, at least—graced the cover of our baseball issue. Unfortunately, he was painted wearing street shoes instead of spikes. In the scouting report on...

Be the boss of your very own baseball team!

•Out With The Old!•Salaries Slashed!•Must Make Room For New Merchandise!

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The Houston AstrosA franchise for the 21st Century, built on ASTRO-LOGIC

It Rankles Roy Blount Jr. that, at least on some subjects, he knows less now than he did in ninth grade. "When I was 14, I was up on all the baseball statistics," says Blount, the Southern...

It is called time BAT, the Baseball Aptitude Test, but the quiz that follows might also be called Baseball Anti-Trivia. It is about the facts, names and figures that are essential to the game's...

Campaneris: WALTER IOOSS JR./Campusano: CHUCK SOLOMON Thompson: MICKEY PFLEGER/Thomson. UPI/BETTMANN NEWSPHOTOS

The appeal of baseball is as diverse as the places where it's played

Hobey BakerI would like to thank Ron Fimrite for his article about Hobey Baker (A Flame That Burned Too Brightly, March 18). It was refreshing to learn of an enormously gifted athlete with such...

The city on the Delaware is at the heart of two new books, about the worst teams in baseball and about Shibe Park