April 14, 1986 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
STEVE GARVEY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY IS A CANDID STORY NOT SOON FORGOTTEN
By Jeremiah Tax
Yesterday
STEPHEN CRANE'S HISTORIC WAR NOVEL OWES A DEBT TO HIS LOVE OF BASEBALL
By Ed Burns
On The Scene
BEHIND ENEMY LINES, RED SOX FANS PLOTTED AGAINST THE DAMN YANKEES
Reminiscence
AN EX-PITCHER DISCOVERS THE HARSH REALITIES ABOUT LIFE AFTER BASEBALL
By Pat Jordan
Baseball '86
As the season begins, some of the sweetest swingers in the history of the game, including a superb youth corps, go to bat
By Ron Fimrite
Wade Boggs, Ted Williams and Don Mattingly rendezvous to talk about-what else?-hitting.
Boston's Wade Boggs has a fat new contract that will buy him plenty of poultry
Tony Gwynn speaks softly and swings a tiny bat, but posts some hefty numbers
By Ron Fimrite
In Only His Third Season, Don Mattingly Invites Comparison with Gehrig, DiMaggio and Other Yankee Stars of Yore
By E.M. Swift
This fence-busting crop of rookies may be a throwback to the sluggers of the '60s
By Craig Neff
By Craig Neff
By Hank Hersch
By Ivan Maisel
By Hersch
By Gammons
By Gammons
By Sandy Keenan
By Maisel
By Ron Fimrite
By Fimrite
By Gammons
By Keenan
By Keenan
By Gammons
By Henry Hecht
By Neff
By Hersch
By Anderson
By Jim Reynolds
By Hecht
By Anderson
By Fimrite
By Neff
Bats
From corking to Wonderboy, here is everything you ever wanted to know about baseball bats—and then some
By Hank Hersch
Inside
Baseball'86
By Maisel
For The Record
A roundup of the week March 31-April 6
Compiled by Bailey Breene Gendron
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
Edited by Craig Neff