October 21, 1991 | Volume 75, Issue 17

The sports highlights you see on the nightly news are often the work of Phoenix Communications

To boost attendance, the 1923 New York Giants signed minor league slugger Mose Solomon

When a prize-winning Border collie works a herd during a sheepdog trial, there is no doubt who is in charge

FinishedIn a triple dead heat, Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal and Cafe Lex in the ninth race at Belmont Park on Oct. 7. The three claimers pulled together deep into the homestretch and raced stride...

Amy BekkenSAN DIEGO

Even sacrificial lamb Cornell enjoyed Stanford's centennial celebration

Welcome to Spruce Creek, Fla., where you'll find an airplane in most every driveway

Wing shooters and epicures are celebrating the ring-necked pheasant's centennial in the U.S.

Marvin Lee Aday, a.k.a. rock 'n' roller Meat Loaf, is a devoted girls' softball coach

A septuagenarian with spunk who took up drag racing now reigns as queen of the strip

Lance Richbourg draws on his baseball heritage as well as his talent as a painter to create unusual T-shirts

[Thumb Up]To Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jose Rijo, for buying two ambulances for the police department and the hospital in his hometown of San Cristóbal in the Dominican Republic.

John Gutekunst, University of Minnesota football coach, after his Gophers lost to Colorado 58-0 on Sept. 21: "The new NCAA rule says we have to have one day oft each week. I just didn't think...

The marathon season is in full swing, with races the next few weeks in Detroit, Chicago and New York City. Halloween is also approaching, so here is a list of 10 notable marathon impostors—runners...

After the final out was made in the New York Mets' last game of the season, Ralph Kiner, the Mets broadcaster, long renowned for his verbal miscues, said, "We'll be back to wrap things up and talk...

Flashing across our Oct. 17, 1966, cover was New York Jet quarterback Joe Namath, whom we described as "pro football's very own Beatle." We also reported the trade of another free spirit named...

Minnesota is World Series bound after sliding by Toronto in the American League Championship Series

How bad a year was it for managers? The Blue Jays' Cito Gaston missed 33 games with a herniated disk—and then suffered food poisoning. The Twins' Tom Kelly had shingles. The Pirates' Jim Leyland...

Two one-run wins in Atlanta gave Pittsburgh an edge in the National League series

Who Is That Man?In the SCORECARD section of your Sept. 30 issue, you listed the 12 American League and 14 National League pitchers with the fastest fastballs. No Dodger pitcher was mentioned, but...

The conditions may have been ideal, but Chip Beck's 59 was still a remarkable achievement

The Dodgers' Tommy Lasorda isn't the only one who has been overworking his blender

The champion Pittsburgh Penguins are pulling for stricken coach Bob Johnson

Sunshine Supermen

OFFENSEMichael Lerch, a junior split end for Princeton, set Division I-AA records for all-purpose yards (463) and receiving yards (370, on nine catches) and scored four TDs in the Tigers' 59-37...

Don't Worry, He'll Be Back

What the Raiders' team doctors believed to be true in March—two months after Bo Jackson suffered a serious hip injury in an AFC playoff game—finally came to pass last week: Jackson isn't going to...

Starting Over

In 1986, Heike Drechsler let slip to a reporter that she and her soccer-player husband, Andreas, wanted to have a child. Her coach and a local club official upbraided her for even considering such...

In early November 1989, shortly before the Berlin Wall fell and while demonstrations were taking place around East Germany, a West German television station reported that Henry Maske, a...

At his Coach's urging, Udo Beyer retired after a disappointing fourth-place finish in the shot put at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. "The problem was, inside I wasn't ready to retire," he says today. "I...

In the living room of his apartment in the decaying industrial city of Halle, Thomas Lange has placed his Olympic gold medal, won in the single sculls in Seoul, in a glass-and-wood display case...

At the world swimming championships in Perth last January, Jörg Hoffmann won what some consider to be the greatest race of all time, the 1,500-meter final, in which he touched out Kieren Perkins...