October 19, 1970 Table Of Contents
Bad Birds
FLYING START FOR THE BIG BAD BIRDS
It was the Series everybody wanted between baseball's two best teams, but the Orioles took something away from the script when they hit a little harder and pitched a little better to get away winging
Oklahoma was victim No. 24 as Steve Worster & Co. stretched the longest win streak
By Dan Jenkins
DAYS OF STILLNESS AT WICHITA STATE
The crash of a chartered airplane carrying a college team was tragedy enough, but the grief has been intensified by a maze of evidence that indicates the accident should never have happened
Hockey's New Season
A long look forward through the rosters of the NHL and a short look backward by a winning—and now disillusioned—coach make NHL hockey in 1970 seem like a one-man game
By Mark Mulvoy
People
College Football
Upside down and over with the Coast crazies
On a madcap day out West the Jim Plunkett Indians declined to lose to favored Southern California, and the UCLA Bruins failed to defeat underdog Oregon. That means Stanford should go to the Rose Bowl—maybe
Harness Racing
Little Joe on the big Red Mile
Joe O'Brien went to the Lexington Trots with a handful of his own horses and set the Grand Circuit on its ear with his catch drives
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By J. Richard Munro
Edited by Robert Creamer