Dizzy Dean

Vice-President Richard Nixon, extemporizing at the New York Baseball Writers' dinner: "Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater." (Laughter.) "That can be taken two ways can't it?"

Busch Stadium, St. Louis, the scene of this year's All-Star Game, was built in 1881 and until 1953 was called Sportsman's Park. Its officers in the last century had names like Von der Ahe, Muckenfuss and Diddle-bock;...

Portuguese windjammer Sagres, square-rigged sails billowing from her tall masts, heads into the English Channel at Torquay on way to Lisbon at the start of 80-mile International Training Ship race won by British...