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...time I was eleven, my sister and I had the best baseball card collection in the neighborhood, and we were avid basketball and football fans as well. Then it was all right to be a sports fan. It was cute. "They're just tomboys, they'll grow out of it soom," my uncle would reassure himself...
...with the worst names, the best clothes and other minutiae. Christgau's Record Guide by Village Voice critic Robert Christgau describes--and grades--the rock albums of the past decade. And The Compleat Beatles, a $13.95 compendium of sheet music, interviews and pictures, makes a wonderful goft for the avid Beatle fan, though not for the relative who didn't get "Sgt. Pepper" until last Yuletide...
...better in the bestseller section. Check out Jane Fonda's Workout Book, for instance. From sexpot to anti-war activist to movie star to mother to avid jogger who exercises "until I am dripping with sweat," Jane here leads her troops through arm stretches, back leg extensions and more...
...years ago, Bill Nicolai, 36, an avid backpacker, relied on food stamps to eat. After his tent was destroyed in a snowstorm in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, he designed a tougher tent to replace it and began offering it through the mail. Last year Early Winters, the hiking-equipment catalogue business Nicolai founded, had sales of $7.2 million, and he expects them to reach $10 million this year...
Initially under siege from the reactionary tennis establishment, critics accused the fledgling racquet, which boasts a 40-per-cent greater hitting area than its traditional counter-part, of being illegal, Political humorist, Art Buchwald, an avid tennis fan, recalls his personal "humiliation" and "suffering" when he first brandished it against Washington politicos. "I went through a terrible period... my opponents were screaming bloody murder, accusing me of cheating." While most of Washington officialdom are now converts, rumor has it that president Reagan doesn't play the game because he hasn't figured out where to hitch his horse...