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...most antique rarity of all may be an image of Pittsburgh Pirate Shortstop Honus Wagner, issued around 1910. About two dozen copies are known to exist. The king of baseball-card collectors, Larry Fritsch of Stevens Point, Wis., who claims to have more than 1 million cards stashed away, bought his Wagner for $1,300 in 1974. According to price guides, the same card would fetch $35,000 today...
Besides being a dreary calling at times, kicking positions are as fragile as Viennese chandeliers. After twelve years and four teams, egg-shaped Austrian Toni Fritsch missed two field goals for New Orleans last week and, disgusted with himself, went home to Vienna. Some of the soccer kickers, domestic and foreign, know enough about both football and human nature to risk tossing their lithe bodies about the field recklessly. If they never get smudged, they are certain to feel more isolated from teammates when the extra points blow off course. The New York Jets' Pat Leahy...
...them into our facilities for medical treatment," fumes Davis. "That's just stupid." Only a handful of players openly opposed the union in the strike's first days, but a few went along grumbling. "Austria is neutral," said New Orleans Place Kicker Toni Fritsch, an Austrian. New Orleans Player Representative Russell Erxleben polled his membership about dropping the wage-scale demand, perhaps a small crack in solidarity. Though negotiators were finally promising to meet over the past weekend, the players were not heartened by the news that the owners were assured of two weeks' TV money...
...EARL D. FRITSCH Montague, Mich...
Delicate Balance. If the union's two components are having trouble balancing each other, Nyerere and Karume apparently are trying hard to balance East and West. In the receiving line welcoming Nyerere, U.S. Consul General Frank Carlucci was neatly played off against East German Ambassador Guenther Fritsch. To demonstrate their nonalignment, Nyerere and Karume spoke Swahili with both the American and the East German; Carlucci answered them fluently, while Fritsch, wincing behind his sunglasses, used an interpreter...