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July 24, 1989 Table Of Contents

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Escape

SARATOGA'S REVAMPED RACING MUSEUM IS A WINNER

By David Levine

Aluminum Bats

END OF AN ERA

What would the Babe think? The crack of the wooden bat is being replaced by the ping of aluminum. And by the end of the next decade, the ping is likely to be heard in the majors

By Peter Gammons

Holyfield-Rodrigues

LEAN AND MEAN

Evander Holyfield sent a message to Mike Tyson with his KO of Adilson Rodrigues

By Pat Putnam

An American Summer\Billings Montana

TAKE US OUT TO THE BALL GAME

The Billings Mustangs are a minor league team, but our travelers got a major charge out of cozying up to them

By Jack McCallum

NFL Comebacks

The COMEBACK Chronicles

NFL training camp is a now-or-never time for the Navy's Napoleon McCallum and two other players trying to restart their football careers

By Hank Hersch

The WBL

It's a Small WORLD

In the World Basketball League, the maximum height is 6'4‚Öû", but the players are thinking big

By William Nack

Inside

INSIDE: BASEBALL

By Peter Gammons

AN ALL-STAR FATHER

By Richard Demak

Horse Racing

A PERFECT HORSE CAME UP FLAWED

Houston, all $2.9 million of him, disappointed his backers in a sprint at Belmont

By Demmie Stathoplos

Reminiscence

GOING LONG FOR PING-PONG

Two tables put end to end made the game a summer smash

By Peter Alson

Television

PLAYING FOR THE PEACOCK

NBC has recruited Bill Walsh to beef up its football team

By Bruce Anderson

For The Record

A Roundup of the Week July 10-16

Compiled by Stefanie Krasnow

FACES IN THE CROWD

Point After

GOING LOCAL GOES GLOBAL

Here and abroad grass roots environmentalism is growing

By Robert Sullivan

Departments

FROM THE PUBLISHER

By Donald J. Barr

LETTERS

Edited by Gay Flood

SCORECARD

Edited by Craig Neff