xiv, 384 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes index
Contents:
Introduction Greatest game ever played Photo by Neil Leifer Miss Leen and Anne Bancroft Learning the ropes Of armbands and armpits A ticket to anywhere First SI covers Neil and Walter Innovation and opportunity Ali The shoots I wish had never happened Mickey Mantle My short-lived crush on Doris Day Say hey and Sugar Ray Arnold Palmer Tokyo Olympics \'64 Koufax, Roseboro, Marichal, and Drysdale Andre Laguerre The great shrimp caper Vietnam to Mexico city Munich, 1972, and Peggy Fleming, 1968 What's luck got to do with it? Joe Namath Charles Finley The horse and the tiger Topeka capital-journal Henry Luce and Hedley Donovan From SI to Time The 1980 conventions Ed Koch, America's mayor Olympic gold Stallone and Redford Clint Eastwood Willie Nelson Paul Newman The inmate nation \'84 Olympics preview The white house plant Mike Tyson Bear Bryant Alec Baldwin and Mr. Connery Ron Brown Aircraft carriers and Africa From Time to the National The Gulf war Ali, take 2 At the movies Senior citizen tour Baseball with Bush Epilogue