Sport: You Can Look It Up

It's the year of the streak: eleven straight wins for the A's, eight straight for Whitey Herzog's St. Louis Cardinals, off to their best start in 35 years, and six in a row for the ever underprivileged White Sox, who have just added three certified all-stars—Ron Le Flore, Carlton Fisk and Greg Luzinski—to an all-pitch, no-hit team. Kansas City, the loser in last fall's World Series, is in last place in the American League West, and an aging Los Angeles Dodger team that had the experts shaking their heads in the off season jumped...