Football players’ hobbies
I .us, month tua|or leaguer Bo
Jackson 'Haiti he was going io play
football dus year as a hobby. He
plans to join the I a*» Angeles Raid
ers after the Kansas City Royals
finish their baseball season
Most pm football players don',
consider their spirt a hobby But
some of them do have other
hobbies
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Football is #1 with New York Jets player Mark Gastineau,
whose hobby is collecting Indian artifacts.
■ Reggie Williams, Cincinnati
linehacker. likes to raise Great
Danes.
• Walter Payton. Chicago nin
ning back, collects antique
cars
■ Reggie White, Philadelphia
nose tackle, does impressions
of famous people. suc h as
Muhammad A ll. Rodney
Dangertield. ( lint Eastwood
a, xi Eh is IVesley
■ Maik Gas,mean. New York Jets
defensive lineman, collects
Amencan Indian art in
Arizona
■ Mike Horan. Denver punter,
works m the of, season design
ing unmanned radar equipment
for airplanes
■ Stese McMichael, Chicago
defensive tackle, likes to hunt
rattlesnakes
■ Al lim n. New York Jets wide*
receiver, enjoys ballet la s t
year he* seas ins tied to audition
for the* Amencan Ballet
fheatn*
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Chicago's Walter Payton, the NFL's all-time leading rusher with
16,193 yards, likes to collect antique cars.
Spectacular sports
Super
slugger
ties
record
Darcy Cruikshank. II. (left)
bom Portland. Oregon, won the Ore
gon Junior Championship title in the
girls' ¡iee wee division She beat
Molly Nealy fmm Grants Pass, Ore
gon. one up in the match play tourney
New York Yankee's first baseman
Don Mattingly claimed he wasn't think
ing about home nins when he stepped
up to the plate. Mattingly, who had a
slow star, this baseball season. lied the
major league record of homenng in
eight straight games.
Back injuries kept Mattingly on
the bench for IK games and before
the streak, there had only been eight
Mattingly homers this season Once
Mattingly broke the American I eague
home run streak of six, baseball tans
were going crazy while he was staying
cool
Mattingly, 26, told the press after his
seventh consecutive home run game. "I
just want to help the club I haven’t hit
a home run try ing to hi, one They jus,
seem to he happening I don't know
why."
Once Mattingly was close to breaking
the record set by Pittsburgh Pirate Dale
Long 51 years ago, he was swinging to
hit the hall into the seats Bui his streak
finally came to an end Mattingly said
he is proud to share the record with
l ong and added he wouldn't mind hit
ting another streak. " I’d like to do this
again I like this."
Bn>thers Nick a n d lo in Purler tmm
Wentzville, Missouri, were both
awanled gold medals at the National
Junior Olympic Wrestling Champion
ships because* they would not wrestle
each other for the 105 5 pound ( irveo
Roman title
Sisters V icki am i Vera Jen k in s tmm
Arizona, placed lust ami second respee
lively in the I ' 14 girls' t.OOO meter
race walk a, I he Athletics Congress
national track meet in Philadelphia
Scot, Bell. 12. o, Carmel, Indiana,
won eight gold medals in swimming
at the White River Paik Slate Games
I le also took home a silver and bronze
medal
I he U.S. gills' softball team heal
v China I 0 to score America's lust ever.
S Inst place finish in the Iunior ( nils
Sotthall World Championship
I he tournament was held in < Iklahoma
( its. < fklahoma
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The Kail o t Fame w ants the bat, a 32-
ounce L o u is v ille Slugger, that tied the
record, but M attin gly w on t hand it over
u n til it's broken
Darcy C ru iksha nk watches her put,
drop into the cup
Competing in the 14 14 age group
ot the pentathlon. R icardo Aguirre
ot Scalile. Washington set a national
leeoni with 3,l66points lie won three
ol the Ine pentathlon events ai I he
Athletics Congress national meet
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