The April 1978 issue of SPORT magazine. Volume 66, No. 04. This issue features relief pitchers Sparky Lyle and Goose Gossage of the New York Yankees on the cover.
Cover price is $0.75.
Features:
22 Sparky & the Goose
Two of the game's great firemen compare notes on the crafty, cutthroat art of
relief pitching-the key, these days, to winning a pennant
BY HARRY STEIN
35 Will free agents kill baseball?
(And other crucial questions on the future of our
"national pastime")
Ten experts sound off!
BY RICHARD
O
'CONNOR
48 A fan's guide to pro basketball: part 3
So much NBA strategy revolves around the maneuvering of the big men because,
as the author explains, the good ones rebound, set picks, sacrifice themselves--and intimidate like the massive folks they are
BY CHARLEY ROSEN
60 "When it's show time, Butch Lee puts the ball in the
basket"
Says Al McGuire, former coach of defending NCAA champion Marquette, who
also predicts that the 6-foot-1 All-America will be drafted by the first NBA team that
needs a guard
BY PHILIP SINGERMAN
68 The bizarre, brawling Cosmos
The soccer champions "made the Yankees look like the Mormon Tabernacle
Choir," said their goalie. The Cosmos' ego clashes and power struggles stretched
from the field and locker room into the executive suite
BY STEPHEN SINGER AND DAVID HIRSHEY
77 Soccer and the ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
The North American Soccer League struggled nine years to make a breakthrough
in New York, but it has expanded before the hearts, minds and dollars of other
"must" cities have been won
BY JERRY IZENBERG
80 Arkansas' Three Basketeers
Led by Marvin Delph, Sidney Moncrief and Ron Brewer, the Razorbacks are
building a basketball dynasty at a school that traditionally has gone Hog wild
only over football BY WILLIAM HARRISON
84 "The Beautiful Harvey Martin Show"
The Dallas Cowboys' nonstop pass rusher is a sunny; bubbling fellow off the field.
But in games, "the premier defensive end in the league" displays a disposition
matching
·that of his pet killer fish BY MARK GOODMAN
