Article October 16, 1995 Issue

Sports with a difference!

by Kim Shippey

In the United States this is one of the busiest times of the year for sports enthusiasts. Television provides almost nonstop entertainment through the closing stages of the baseball season, the gathering momentum of the football season, and an incipient basketball season. And it's also a time when viewers find it hard to resist active participation in sports on brisk fall days perfectly made for running, jumping, and throwing.

In the spirit of the season, we talked with three people whose careers have been closely associated with major league baseball and football, soccer in England, and marathon running.

It happens every Sunday that there's a home game in major league baseball parks throughout the United States. A couple of hours before the first pitch, a dozen or more players from each team gather in the clubhouse for informal chapel services.

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