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The Worst Team Money Could Buy
Even before the New York Mets began the 1992 season, they had set a critical record: the highest payroll ever for a major-league team, $45 million. With players Bobby Bonilla,…
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They Cleared the Lane
Today, Black players compose more than eighty percent of the National Basketball Association’s rosters, providing a strong and valued contribution to professional basketball. In the first half of the twentieth…
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Touching the Void
Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of…
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Twilight of the Long-ball Gods
A report from the true heart of baseball, this anthology leaves behind the bad boys and big names of the major leagues to take readers to the places where the…
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
In the 1890s the world of racing was turned on its ear by a young American who rode horses as no professional jockey had ever ridden: Tod Sloan hitched up his…