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By CHARLES JAY, Editor/Publisher, TotalAction.com


Sample two-week run

WEEK ONE

Monday

UAYILOSS NKYZASISM

This Hall of Famer, one of the greater pure hitters of all time, compiled over 2900 lifetime hits and a .334 career average over a twenty-year career, the first nine years of which were spent with Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics. The scramble above doesn't represent the name he played under, but his real name.


Tuesday

OENPTRS URDRHEILBE

This nondescript Raider gained a measure of temporary notoriety by scoring the final touchdown in the infamous "Heidi" game against the New York Jets in 1968.

Yesterday's answer: ALOYSIUS SZYMANSKI, better known as Al Simmons.


Wednesday

MIAERNG NOANJSHON

This swingin' Swede shocked the world by knocking out the heavyweight champion in three rounds in 1959, annexing the most prestigious title in sports. He was renowned for his powerful right hand, known as "The Hammer of Thor".

Yesterday's answer: PRESTON RIDLEHUBER, who in that game scored one of his three career TD's


Thursday

ANIRB CTRHAEE

Not an elite player on the men's tennis tour, he nevertheless won his share in the spotlight by taking home the title in the 1980 Australian Open, one of tennis' "Grand Slams".

Yesterday's answer: INGEMAR JOHANNSON, who knocked Floyd Patterson out in the third round on June 26, 1959, and lost it back to Patterson a year later.


Friday

TLEIRGA RREETUPLA

This highly-touted junior standout was the main cog of the Buffalo Sabres' "French Connection" line of the 1970's. A member of hockey's Hall of Fame, he won the Calder Trophy, as the NHL's rookie of the year, for the 1970-71 season.

Yesterday's answer: BRIAN TEACHER, who in that Australian Open won his only major singles title.


Saturday

SUSR GOESDH

Only one clue here - "The Giants Win the Pennant!!", "The Giants Win the Pennant!!", "The Giants Win the Pennant!!"

Yesterday's answer: GILBERT PERREAULT, who, by the way, was joined on the "French Connection" line by Rick Martin and Rene Robert.


Sunday

YRA VIAAAMSL

He got thrown out of West Point in the cheating scandal of the early 1950's. He later re-surfaced as the coach of a losing team in the Super Bowl.

Yesterday's answer: RUSS HODGES, the New York Giants' broadcaster on October 3, 1951, when Bobby Thomson hit the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" to beat the Brooklyn Dodgers for the 1951 pennant.



WEEK TWO

Monday

QOIDNIUME SLWIIKN

This French-born player was known as the "Human Highlight Film", and was one of the NBA's most prolific scorers for over a decade. Will the path he's taken lead to basketball's Hall of Fame?

Yesterday's answer: RAY MALAVASI, who left West Point along with dozens of others in the cheating scandal, went on to attend Mississippi State, and coached in the AFL with Denver before moving on to Los Angeles, where he led the Rams to Super Bowl XIV, where they lost to Pittsburgh.


Tuesday

STAM RINWALDE

This player, who may have been most at home on the clay court, won three of tennis' four Grand Slam tournaments in 1988, securing for himself the #1 spot on the computer.

Yesterday's answer: DOMINIQUE WILKINS, former NBA scoring champion who was arguably the league's most spectacular player before Michael Jordan came along.


Wednesday

AOBJC PTUREPR

This Yankee owner pulled off arguably the biggest coup of all time when he purchased the contract of Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox in 1920.

Yesterday's answer: MATS WILANDER, who won the Australian Open, U.S. Open, and French Open in 1988.


Thursday

OORGIIG AIIHCLAGN

This former Italian World Cup hero came to the New York Cosmos at the height of pro soccer's popularity in the U.S. with a big-money contract. And he paid off, becoming the North American Soccer League's most pre-eminent goal-scorer.

Yesterday's answer: JACOB RUPPERT, who, unbelievably, is not in the Hall of Fame, despite the Yankees winning 10 pennants and six World Series titles under his stewardship.



Friday

EKUTN ERCONK

He teamed up with QB Gus Dorais to become one of college football's earliest legitimate passing combos while playing at Notre Dame. And for more reasons than that, he's an indelible part of Fighting Irish history.

Yesterday's answer: GIORGIO CHINAGLIA, who joined Pele and Franz Beckenbauer on one of the most high-priced teams in soccer's history in the U.S.


Saturday

DRFO CRIFK

This former ghost-writer for Babe Ruth put the asterisk (*) on Roger Maris' 61-HR performance in 1961, when he was commissioner of baseball.

Yesterday's answer: KNUTE ROCKNE - his coaching record speaks for itself.


Sunday

IRUSCT AETGSNR

This golfer, who went to Wake Forest on an Arnold Palmer Golf Scholarship, is one of a select group of players to win back-to-back U.S. Open championships.

Yesterday's answer: FORD FRICK, recognized in baseball's Hall of Fame despite pulling off what is arguably one of the great public relations blunders of all time in 1961.










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