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Re: Hestrie Cloete's windmill arm movements.
make that 3 out of the first 5 years.....he bagged one in 1958 too.
make that 3 out of the first 5 years.....he bagged one in 1958 too.
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Re: Hestrie Cloete's windmill arm movements.
make that "we" , meaning T & F, bagged another one. 3 years out of their first 5 years, T & F had their Sportsman of the Year. And that has been it except for Ryun in '66, Decker in '83, and Moses (1/2) in '84. Last 19 years, nada. Sadly, this says a lot.Comment
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Re: Hestrie Cloete's windmill arm movements.
Steve: You're absolutely right, of course. The decline in SI's coverage of t&fn has been precipitous. From the 1950s through about the early 1980s, a reasonable number of SI covers (and stories) were devoted to track/running. In the last twenty years that has declined to just about zero. A clear and painful reflection (or so SI presumes) of American sporting taste.Comment
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Re: Hestrie Cloete's windmill arm movements.
Thanks Steve for telling me about Barksdale and S.I. Unfortunately I only saw my first S.I. when I lived in Oslo in '65 and could borrow it at the U.S. embassy. The picture I had was in the English mag World Sports.
Re the low profile of Track in North America I find it pretty ironic to listen to all the references on N.F.L telecasts to receivers and defensive backs with track background. If you knew nothing about sports in America except the N.F.L. you would have to think that track is a pretty important sport. Go figure.Comment
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Re: Hestrie Cloete's windmill arm movements.
About 10 years ago I received, from Sports Illustrated, a special magazine edition that did nothing but have small pictures of every SI cover since 1954. I compiled a year-by-year summary of every track&field cover by year for about 40 years... steady decline was very evident. I wrote T&FN a letter about it and the printed it.Comment
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