Frank Shorter first came to Boulder, Colo., in the summer of 1970, one year after he graduated from Yale and two years before he won the marathon at the Munich Olympics. Boulder's attraction, at...

Fans let loose during baseball's seventh-inning stretch

These indoor games let you manage like Earl Weaver and hit like Mickey Mantle

Greyhound racing is the game of two elderly sisters

The newly rebuilt J boat 'Endeavour' is a magnificent reminder of a bygone era

This fan collects baseball cards in the pursuit of happiness, not crass cash

PRO BASKETBALL—The league's hottest player and team. Michael Jordan and the Bulls, soared to within 2½ games of the Pistons, the leaders in the Central Division. Chicago beat the Pacers 109-102,...

KAREN OLSSONNORWOOD, MASS.Karen, a senior at Norwood High, scored 9.3 on the uneven bars, 9.25 on the balance beam. 9.15 on the vault and 9.45 in the floor exercise to win her second straight...

High-paid athletes have duties off the field too

TEST CASE?

•Andy Van Slyke, Pittsburgh Pirate outfielder, after striking out three times in an exhibition game against St. Louis: "I was so bad, I couldn't have driven Miss Daisy home."

With a gritty run in the homestretch that began with this bunker shot at the 12th, England's Nick Faldo overtook Raymond Floyd, forced a playoff and won his second consecutive Masters

Today's players are bigger and stronger, and they make more money. But is the game Bo knows really better than its distant cousin of 40 years ago, when a Duke ruled in Flatbush and Ted Williams...

In Brooklyn, the Dodgers played in a typically asymmetrical bandbox. That changed when they moved into their current home.

Why has fielding improved? Compare infielder Nellie Fox's glove (above, left) with that of Ozzie Smith. Catching has declined though, despite larger mitts with deeper pockets (below).

In 1982, staff writer Tim Kurkjian, then a Rookie reporter for The Dallas Morning News, walked into Texas Rangers manager Don Zimmer's office looking a bit glum.

How different is the game today? On the field, it has become faster, with greater emphasis on defense, as this comparison of National League player statistics from 1950 and last season shows. Off...

Out there behind fences and screens and Plexiglas portholes, the denizens of the bullpen live on the fringes of the game, in a peculiar world of their own

AN INTIMATE GUIDE TO LIFE AND LUNACY IN BIG LEAGUE BULLPENS, FROM A PITCHER WHO HAS SEEN THEM ALL

Pretzels Pezzullo. Goober Zuber. Snitz Applegate. Cheese Schweitzer. Bow Wow Arft. Pea Soup Dumont. Yo-Yo Davalillo. Bunions Zeider. Sour Mash Daniels. Stormy Weatherly.

RUBEN SIERRA OF THE TEXAS RANGERS WAS A NEAR MVP IN '89—NOT QUITE GOOD ENOUGH FOR 'THE NEXT CLEMENTE'

IN BASEBALL'S BEST DIVISION, KANSAS CITY AND CALIFORNIA ARE STILL TRYING TO CATCH OAKLAND

The U.S. has its first World Cup medal in bobsledding since 1987, and Chuck Leonowicz is happy but broke. Again. No sooner had the bronze medal been hung around his neck after the last race of the...

For years the springtime ritual of rubbing down my Brooks Robinson-signature glove with neat's-foot oil marked the beginning of my personal baseball season. On some snowy evening in late February...

The money is lying there, just a few feet away from the blonde with the gun in her hand. Her dark blue eyes take on a steely glint as she zeros in on the mark. If she can pull this off, the money...

A tad over five feet tall and weighing only 95 pounds, Theodore Gordon hardly seemed to have the makings of a sporting giant. Born into a family of means in Pittsburgh in 1854, he lived for a...

When the phone rang, I figured it would be my sister Becky, ticked off. I was right. "Can you believe that garbage?" she wailed. "They fired her!"

TO BE A NEW YORK YANKEE WAS DAVE RIGHETTI'S DREAM, BUT LIFE AS A PINSTRIPED RELIEVER HAS BEEN HARSH

IN THIS DIVISION IN DECLINE, THE BLUE JAYS HAVE THE BEST ARMS, BUT EVERYBODY HAS A CHANCE

JOE CARTER, JEERED IN CLEVELAND, WILL BE CHEERED IN SAN DIEGO. BUT HE REALLY JUST PLAYS FOR HIS FAMILY

KURT RAMBISThank you for the long-overdue article on Kurt Rambis (The Eyes Have It, March 19). The contributions Rambis makes to the Phoenix Suns cannot be compared with those of Larry Bird or...

WITH THE ARRIVAL OF JOE CARTER, SAN DIEGO FINALLY HAS ALL THE GUNS IT NEEDS TO WIN THE WEST

IN 1984, DICKIE THON WAS PARTIALLY BLINDED BY A PITCH, BUT HE REFUSED TO LET BAD LUCK END HIS CAREER

EVEN WHITEY HERZOG IS PICKING THE METS, BUT HE COULD SURPRISE WITH HIS RESHUFFLED CARDS

IN 1976, BASEBALL'S FIRST FREE AGENTS LANDED THE BIG, BIG MONEY. LUCKY GUYS. THEY WERE SET FOR LIFE. OR WERE THEY?