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BASEBALL

All-Star Timeline
A quick history of the game's most memorable (and quirkiest) moments. (NEW!)

Extra Innings
"Feeding the Green Monster": Rob Neyer recounts a wild ending at Fenway and a memorable dinner with Buck Martinez. (NEW!)

Hating To See Hank Go
When Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg decided to retire, Red Smith wanted him to stick around.

OUTDOORS

Highways To Hell
An insider's story of a long, strange, painful trip on the Race Across America bicycle race.

TENNIS

Venus Williams
What sets her apart? Her intelligence.

Being John McEnroe
Julian Rubinstein profiles the most creative and most cantankerous tennis player of all time.

PROFILE

Athlete Of The Year
A mother watches her son grow up, and wishes his father were there to see it.

Ghetto Superstar
Maurice Ashley -- Harlem's grandmaster sets a new chess standard.

POLITICS

Baseball & Civil Rights
Robinson, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Paul Robeson, Ike, Malcolm X, JFK, LBJ, & Nixon quarrel over race and patriotism.

Radical Baseball
How communists campaigned to desegregate Major League Baseball.

BOXING

How Muhammad Ali Changed The Press
The author of "King of the World" talks about how Cassius Clay (and Muhammad Ali) revolutionized the world of Jimmy Cannon and Red Smith.

MEDIA

The Thinking Fan's Baseball Site
SJ talks to Baseball Prospectus about Peter Gammons, fantasy baseball, and why players should often be ignored.

		SurfJones
		A guide to the best, worst, & strangest sports stuff on the Web.
	•	Today Ben Gay, Black Jack McDowell, & Basketball Without Borders
	•	See Ms. SurfJones, our daily guide to women in sports.

SURFJONES SPECIALS

SurfJones: The Week In Review
July 13, 2001: The best of our guide to the best of the Web. (NEW!)

BASKETBALL

Basketball Jones
Why I Wrote This Book: Todd Boyd and Kenneth Shropshire consider what makes basketball matter.

Understanding Michael Jordan
Erik Rydholm thinks it's reasonable for MJ to want to come back.

The Sideline Lunatic
Why Doug Collins shouldn’t be coach of the Wizards.

BOOKS

Signs Of The Miraculous
Glenn Stout uncovers the history of Yankee sign-stealing.

WOMEN

The Most Important Woman In Baseball History?
Dorothy Jane Mills was the secret author of baseball's great histories, and she was just named one of the 25 most important women in baseball. Here's her story.

How The Women's Game Grew Up
A history of women's amateur basketball, 1970-present.

Sex Tests
How sexism and bad science have teamed up against athletes.

MOVIES

61*
Billy Crystal's ode to Mantle and Maris, and their remarkable run for Ruth's record.

FOOTBALL

Sports Isn't What You Are ...
It's what you do. So says former NFL lineman Pat Toomay in his look at the dangerous, schizophrenic world of the modern athlete.