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•Jason Thompson, Detroit Tiger first baseman, after Manager Sparky Anderson announced a ban on jeans: "There goes my wardrobe."

In 1937 there was no argument that the New York Yankees were the best team in baseball. They won 102 games, they coasted to their second straight American League pennant by 13 games and crushed the Giants in five...

Thomas Boutsikaris, a senior at Bar-ringer High in Newark, N.J., won the state foil title after taking the city championship three of the past four years. Fencing in dual city league competition, he won 97 straight...

Connie Pelster, 16, helped her Nashville AAU Victory Swim Team win the Tennessee state meet in Knoxville by competing in four relays and by finishing first in six races from 100 to 1,500 meters, setting Southeastern...