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...home again, especially if you go home a winner. Spectacular Bid and his entourage returned in style last week, winning the Preakness by 5½ lengths before home-town fans at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course. It was a dazzling performance by the big gray son of Bold Bidder, the heaviest favorite for the Preakness since Man o' War went to the post in 1920. Carried wide by the field through the clubhouse turn, Spectacular Bid exploded on the backstretch, striding effortlessly past the early leaders to take command of the race. Though Jockey Ronnie Franklin eased...
...season would be nothing but schmaltzy mixed doubles. First it was Jimmy Connors wedding his onetime Playboy playmate. Then last week, Chris Evert, long a top-ranker in women's play and once that way in Connors' court as well, wed British Davis Cup Player John Lloyd in a home-town candlelight ceremony in Fort Lauderdale. The 24-year-old queen of the base lines sounded blushingly unprofessional. Said the woman who has won Wimbledon three times and the U.S. Open four times: "This is only going to happen once...
...sentence to the wheelchair, Waldrep began investigating an experimental and disputed Soviet treatment being used at Leningrad's Polenov Neurosurgery Research Institute. Helped by the intervention of Texas Congressman Jim Wright, the House majority leader, and contributions of nearly $15,000 from a T.C.U. fund raiser and his home-town folks in Grand Prairie, Texas, Waldrep arrived in Leningrad last October. He was the second American sports figure among the nation's estimated 200,000 spine-injured patients to make that pilgrimage this year. (The other was Race-Car Driver Bob Hurt, who suffered spinal injuries...
...scoffs at the notion that his fight for money has eroded the game, and understandably he has little pity for owners. When his batting average dropped to .284 in 1974, the first time below .300 in ten seasons, the Reds tried to cut the salary of the home-town hero by 20%. It was the first salvo in a bitter fight that ended last week with Rose pulling down a Phillies cap over his pageboy. Rose also knows he can sell a lot of tickets for the Phils to cover his salary. Says baseball's leading entrepreneur: "I feel...
...Yankees-Red Sox slugout at Royals Stadium, where they have won 55 games and lost only 24. The field is richly carpeted with Tartan Turf. On this artificial greensward, ground balls that would be easy outs elsewhere rocket past chagrined infielders. The Royals play their rug like so many home-town pool sharks fleecing visiting marks from the big city. Says Designated Hitter Hal McRae: "In this park, we don't drop a big bomb on people, we just run them all over the place...