August 28, 1989 Table Of Contents
Perspective
CLEVELAND, A CITY OF SPORTS WOE
World Records
Two of track's oldest individual world marks fell in European meets as Roger Kingdom and Said Aouita erased two revered names from the record books
On Saturday in Chicago, Jim McMahon got a warm goodbye from Bears fans and put some fire into his new Chargers
By Peter King
Baseball Injuries
WHERE HAVE ALL THE PLAYERS GONE?
A lot of them are on the disabled list, as baseball suffers through the worst rash of injuries in recent memory. Theories abound for all the carnage
By Steve Wulf
How does Nolan Ryan do it? Let us count the ways. On the eve of Ryan's 5,000th strikeout, Rangers p.r. man Larry Kelly put together this list of everyone Ryan had fanned in his 22-year career. Through Sunday, he had 4,994 K's against 1,061 players
Green Bay
The lowly Packers did some heavy investing in the free-agent market this spring in a desperate attempt to break out of their recent aura of gloom and doom
By Douglas S. Looney
Mitch Williams
Mitch Williams, the Cubs' ace reliever, is as unpredictable as the movie character he idolizes. But who cares? It works
John Frank
Fed up with the brutality of football, John Frank, the 49ers' starting tight end in '88, has quit the game at age 27 to concentrate on putting people back together instead of taking them apart
By Jill Lieber
Boxing
Pernell Whitaker thrashed Josè Luis Ramírez
By Pat Putnam
Inside/Baseball
An American Summer
Our travelers learn that croquet is scarcely a picnic
For The Record
A Roundup of the Week Aug. 14-20
Compiled by Sarah B. Schmidt
Departments
Edited by Craig Neff