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Thank you for an article that has made me very homesick for Tokyo and that wonderful sport of champions...
Today, one can make a very good case for football as our national sport, and its popularity has been growing every season. Football combines ample displays of speed, grace, and brute power with a great deal of action. Baseball might provide a moment of power when Mickey Mantle blasts one into the bleachers at Yankee Stadium, or a moment of speed when Maury Wills takes off for second base. But Mantle would have to hit 15 home runs a game to rival the spectacle of Jimmy Brown hitting the Giants' line...
...hand, absence of a time limit creates dramatic situations unapproachable in any other sport. Bobby Thomson's home run in the 1951 National League play-off game is one example of how baseball produces truly memorable moments because of its deliberate pace...
...interesting that Wills' assault on Cobb's record and Maris' home run splurge two years ago did excite public interest; but such moments in baseball are rare, and the sport cannot hope to provide the sustained action and excitement one can find almost any Saturday afternoon in Soldiers Field, let alone in Green...
Povich outdraws such punditical heavyweights as Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop and Marquis Childs on their home grounds, and he does so against formidable odds. In the virile environment of the sport section, his first name can only be a liability. He is the only male ever listed in Who's Who of American Women, a distinction conferred upon him by accident even though his entry clearly and accurately stated that he is married to a girl named Ethyl. He is the only U.S. sportswriter who, after checking into a room with a colleague in a Tampa hotel, got flowers...