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...your article on the final game of the World Series [SPORT, Nov. 11], you say the St. Louis Cardinals had feet of porcelain. How unfair to criticize the entire team for the antics of one player, Joaquin Andujar. The Cardinals are a great group of athletes who conducted themselves with class and gave us a full summer of baseball fun. Lu Stephens St. Louis...
...newest player in the p.r. contest is a group with a vaguely mysterious name, the Trilogy Foundation. Trilogy, which has the blessing of the White House and the National Security Council, was the brainchild of a group that included David Jones, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and former U.S. Senator and Astronaut Harrison Schmitt. According to Washington P.R. Man Burt Hoffman, who is helping the group organize, Trilogy intends to inform the public about the technical merits of SDI. "The object is to stay in the middle, not to be like High Frontier, which has been labeled as zealots...
DIED. Harry Hopman, 79, Australian tennis player and coach whose rigorous training regimen as nonplaying captain of his country's Davis Cup teams from 1950 to 1969 produced 15 victories and a corps of top players, including Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall and John Newcombe; of a heart attack; in Seminole...
...lifetime figures are impressively large: 2,211 hits, 1,555 RBIs, 521 home runs (including 18 grand slams), 6 ft. 4 in. of height--and now.810 on the Hall of Fame ballot. That number represents 346 out of a possible 425 votes and makes Willie McCovey only the 16th player to enter the hall in his rookie year of eligibility. But "Stretch" always started fast. The San Francisco Giant first baseman was a Rookie of the Year in 1959. Second in this year's voting, four votes below the 319 needed, was Billy Williams, hard-hitting outfielder for the Chicago...
...custody of the amazing Halas. It might be an exaggeration to say that the entire fabric of sport was sewn in this singular man, but it is a fact that Halas shared one field with Jim Thorpe and yielded another to Babe Ruth. He was a most valuable player in the 1919 Rose Bowl and for a moment a rightfielder with the New York Yankees, but indelibly he was Papa Bear...