Jimmie Dykes

BASEBALL: SECONDING MOTIONSSirs:What Baseball Needs (SI, Feb. 23) is the most sensible article ever penned.

Ill-fated hydro, Miss Thriftway, its prow still buried engine-deep in bow of Coast Guard boat, is raised from Lake Washington. But racer broke away and sank in 80 feet of water.

The Rapier from Waxahachie may be the busiest man in baseball as he trades, rejects, patches and plans for

Early power in the National League shifts westward. Milwaukee is hot. So is St. Louis. And in Cincinnati the Birdie chirps

Mark Kauffman accompanies the Cincinnati Redlegs on a typical 12-day trip and finds that the on-field glamour of the diamond is all but obscured by frantic scrambles to make trains, meals at odd times and long,...