September 13, 1976 Table Of Contents
Footloose
AN EXHIBIT OF BEST, WORST, SMALLEST, BIGGEST—AND THE MEANEST CHICKEN
Viewpoint
HE WORE NO. 1 ON HIS UNIFORM AND HE IS NO. 1 IN THE AUTHOR'S ESTEEM
Booktalk
THE BEST PART OF WALKING THIS TRAIL: KNOWING WHEN AND WHERE TO GET OFF
Jackpot
Every time someone invents a tournament that might someday be ranked as a major championship, Jack Nicklaus decides he had better win it, as he did the new World Series of Golf in Akron, pocketing $100,000
By Dan Jenkins
WON THE HEATS, LOST TO THE HEAT
Billy Haughton wanted to scratch Steve Lobell from the fourth heat of The Hambletonian, and he was both wrong and right: the colt took the trotting classic and $131,762 in 90° weather but, as Billy feared, collapsed afterward
By Douglas S. Looney
Dish Behind The Plate
HE'S A DISH ONLY BEHIND THE PLATE
Thurman Munson has a squatty body and a prickly personality, but he is a catcher without peer, a .302 hitter and the best bet to win the MVP award
By Larry Keith
Dipsea
The race is only 6.8 miles long, but its 2,000 runners go up a stairway, down gullies, through rain forests. Some finish, bloodied and bowed
By Dan Levin
Pro Football 1976
What happens when Mary signals for the 43 Purple Sloop may determine which NFL teams go Super Bowling in Pasadena
By Dan Jenkins
By Robert F. Jones
Bud Grant
Getting Away From the Boo Birds
Putting Minnesota's annual playoff failure out of mind, Bud Grant takes to the woods to commune with ravens and contemplate a race of giant bluegills
By Robert F. Jones
TV/Radio
Baseball
MET STARTING PITCHERS KOOSMAN, LOLICH, MATLACK AND SEAVER ARE THE BEST, BUT BECAUSE OF DINKY HITTING AND FIELDING, THEIR RECORDS DON'T SHOW IT
By Kent Hannon
By Herman Weiskopf
Cloud Of Dust
In a Cloud of Dust, Heigh-ho, Silverado!
Neither rocks nor ruts nor barbed-wire fence stayed off-road racer Walker Evans and his pickup from their appointed rounds in the Baja International
By Sam Moses
As I See It
FOOTBALL FORMATION IN WHICH BOBBY LAYNE, T. S. ELIOT BOTH CALL SIGNALS
For The Record
A roundup of the week Aug. 31-Sept. 4
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
Edited by Sarah Pileggi