Sport: The Competitive Instinct

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*Last National Leaguers to do it: the New York Giants' Bill Terry (.401 in 1930) and the St. Louis Cardinals' Rogers Hornsby (.403 in 1925).

*Ted has been known to wear a tie only half a dozen times in his life. On one occasion he wore a tie to a baseball writers' banquet in Boston simply to cross up the reporters; a friend had assured him that they had already written their stories and reported him tieless.

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