Jerry Cooke

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Sox and the City

The best shooters are as competitive as the athletes they cover, so SI helps them keep score (and, yes, this list includes Joe DiMaggio, but, no, it's not the Yankee Clipper)

On a journey to Murmansk—a Soviet port that lies well north of the Arctic Circle—for a ski race, the author encounters racing reindeer, skating skiers, weatherproof walrus and mind-numbing Northern Lights

2, 3—Heinz Kluetmeier4, 13—Lane Stewart16—Illustration by Sam Q. Weissman18, 19—George Tiedemann, Manny Millan (right)20, 21—Jacqueline Duvoisin22—Richard Mackson (left)23, 24, 25—Andy Hayt34, 35—Enrico Ferorelli36,...