Eddie Mathews

Once the Braves spoke confidently of pennants. Now they speak hopefully of the first division, and even that may be out of reach if their fading old men don't pull off a geriatric miracle

Hematoma is a word that didn't get into many baseball stories last year and won't get into many this year either. Through the last two months of the 1962 season Maury Wills of the Los Angeles Dodgers was suffering...

•Darrell Royal, University of Texas football coach, when three freshmen quit the squad during spring training: "If they don't want to play football, I'd rather they quit now than in front of 75,000 people."

Minnesota outdid the Chicago Cubs, coming up with three managers in five hours. When Owner Cal Griffith gave Cookie Lavagetto a week's "vacation," Coach Sam Mele took charge at 3:30 p.m. of that day. Mele was thrown...