Ken Reitz

Ken Reitz of St. Louis has started another season with a flourish, but this time maybe his high average won't wilt

In case it slipped your mind during the Christmas rush, January will mark the 10th birthday of that four-inch foam friend of furniture, that rainy-day mother's helper, that awakener of athletic fantasies, the NERF...

A batch of young players full of snap and ginger are battling to make the majors, but none faces as tough a test as St. Louis' Hector Cruz. Third base is his, though he has played the position for only a year

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Governor Francis Sargent of Massachusetts was reminiscing about the time he played golf with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller on Rockefeller's course at his Pocantico Hills estate. Sargent claims he looked at the...