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Contents: Across The Sea To Glory (Braving ups, downs and the dread cold sink, three balloonists rode Double Eagle II to a historic Atlantic crossing); Close Encounters Of The Worst Kind (When Affirmed cut off Alydar in the backstretch of the Travers, he became a loser even though he finished first;) Exhaustion and Elation (Diana Nyad gave it a game try in her swim from Cuba to Key West, but tough seas ended her effort after 42 hours); (John Kinsella shattered the record for a swim across Lake Ontario, triumphing over a storm and some bad spaghetti sauce); Speed Is All The Rage (Where coaching leaves off, chemistry steps in with an encapsulated fury for football players. Part 3 of a series); Just Name Your Game (Now 75, Oswald Jacoby will bet you on backgammon, chess, bridge, poker or who can multiply 647,992 by 435,638 fastest); Raised By Women To Conquer Men (Jimmy Connors, who once bestrode the world of tennis, no longer wins the big ones, but he refuses to change his game, to grow up) Departments – Scorecard; Baseball; Pool; For The Record; 19th Hole
Cover: “Hooray! and Up, Up”
Condition: Very Good