The last-place Mets, already drawing nearly as many spectators as the first-place Yanks, have a spanking-new stadium Just a stone's throw from the nation's biggest 1964 attraction. Now the battle to capture New York's baseball fans enters a critical phase

Pro basketball's greatest scorer changed his style and became a complete player this season. The result is that his team is winning in the West

Kept under wraps until just before the biggest U.S. stock-car race, a trio of souped-up Plymouths swept the Daytona 500 in stunning array, and emerged as brilliant challengers for the supremacy held by Ford

Salisbury, Md. has a population of only 16,302, but its huge, airy civic center (above) proved an ideal site for the National Indoor championships, which were won by Chuck McKinley