Come On Down!

BOB BARKER had a consecutive-appearances streak that would make Cal Ripken Jr. envious. Last Friday, after a record 35 years, Barker's 6,586th and final episode of The Price Is Right aired. Before breaking into TV, Barker wrote news and sports for a Springfield, Mo., radio station. "I loved it," Barker, 83, says. "I've always been interested in sports."

Barker grew up in Mission, S.D., playing baseball, basketball and football, and running track. The 6' 1" forward got a scholarship to Drury University but a year later enlisted in the Navy as a fighter pilot (he never saw combat). He's still an avid hoops fan—"I was one of the few people who watched the NBA playoffs," he says—even if his jump shot is half what it used to be. "My shot is still good," he says, "but I don't jump." For the heck of it, SI gauged Barker's sports-related price-guessing skills.

IS THE PRICE RIGHT?
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