Word: offseason
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Louis in the offseason, tending to a flock of lucrative endorsements and businesses, including a flower shop. With the most punishing steals ahead and an annual salary of $120,000 guaranteed, what keeps the son of a poor Louisiana family running? "Stealing is the most dramatic moment of the game," says Brock passionately. "The pitcher knows you're going, the crowd knows you're going, you know you're going. When you succeed, it's a great feeling. Nothing upsets the other team as much as a stolen base." The way he is going, the National...
...minutes of your time, looked at them with a smile or just told them they looked great." In carrying out his philosophy of wealth ("If you've got money, spread it around"), Jackson finances a home for delinquent boys in Tempe, Ariz., where he lives in the offseason. He plans to open a ranch for the same purpose near Tucson. Last year he gave the car he won as best player in the World Series to a Chicano and Yaqui Indian community organization in Tempe. Jackson's generosity is an extension of his religious beliefs...
Though his annual salary tops $200,000, Havlicek lives modestly with his wife and two young children in a middle-class suburb outside Boston. In the offseason, they move to an unpretentious home in Columbus, Ohio, about 100 miles west of the small town of Lansing where Havlicek grew up. When his playing career ends, Havlicek hopes, "there may be a chance for me to do some work around Columbus as an assistant college coach, but I'll concentrate on my housewares business there. And I'm going to learn to ski." The way Havlicek is running these...
...woman pro-tennis player. O.J. Simpson was in another room at the same place receiving the Life Saver the of the Month award for some timely yardage back in September. When the two sports persons bumped into each other the way out, the Juice proposed a match in the offseason. "I always thought tennis was a sissy game, " he said. "Guys that didn't run around with me played tennis. Now I play a lot. May be Billie Jean will give me a lesson...
...next by neglecting to submit for certification a world record set by an N.C.A.A. runner. Though the authorities generally wink at under-the-table gratuities of various kinds, the N.C.A.A. once suspended Oregon State's Gary Freeman from the varsity basketball team for violating a rule about offseason play. Freeman's heinous crime: on a trip home to Boise, Idaho, he returned to his high school to play in a seniors v. alumni game in which no score was kept and the admission was all of 250. Not to be outdone, the A.A.U. once strongly chastised a Fort...