July 6, 1992 Table Of Contents
Movies
Women ballplayers are celebrated in "A League of Their Own"
By Steve Wulf
Track And Field
They were as inseparable as Wayne and Garth, but after the wrenching U.S. track and field trials, Dave Johnson is headed to Barcelona, and Dan O'Brien is staying home
By Kenny Moore
By Steve Wulf
XXV Olympic Summer Games
After requesting a pregame photo, Cuba posed no match for the debuting U.S. Olympic team
Raul Marquez studied boxing so well under his father that he earned a trip to Barcelona
By William Nack
Melvin Stewart's journey from the world of the PTL ministry to his life as the world's best butterflyer has been, well, Dickensian
At the track cycling trials, Paul Swift came in first and got second, Ken Carpenter crashed and won
THERE USED TO BE TWO GAMES OF PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL, THE MAJOR LEAGUES AND THE NEGRO LEAGUES. THEY WERE SEPARATE AND MOST DEFINITELY NOT EQUAL. THE MEN OF THE NEGRO LEAGUES PERFORMED WITH SKILL AND PASSION, BUT FOR NICKELS AND DIMES. YET THEIR MEMORIES OF THOSE DAYS ARE RICH
Steve Palermo
Last July, American League umpire Steve Palermo was felled by a bullet. After a year of grueling rehabilitation, he holds on to his dream of umpiring again
By Bruce Newman
Brown And Andolsek
Still, freak accidents took the lives of Jerome Brown of the Philadelphia Eagles and Eric Andolsek of the Detroit Lions
By Rick Reilly
By Mitch Albom
At Wimbledon, Beasties and Rotters, i.e., esteemed Fleet Street journalists, never let facts bonker a good story
Inside
By Tim Kurkjian
Inside/Baseball
By Steve Hirdt/The Elias Sports Bureau
For The Record
The new world tennis order...The IAAF just says O.K. ...A fond adios to Amoros
Edited by Sally Guard
Point After
U.S. track and field athletes have little defense against coercion by the sport's dictators
By Kenny Moore
Departments
Edited by Richard Demak