Southern Illinois University - Obelisk Yearbook (Carbondale, IL)

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The Year in Review Cards win series while football strikes out. The St. Louis Cardinals beat Har- vey Kuhnls Wall Bangers in a dra- matic seven game World Series. Catcher Darrell Porter drove away with the cars as the series MVP and Manager Whitey Herzog,s Redbirds beat the Milwaukee Brewers a pitch at a time. It was a season when big league attendance was increasing almost as fast as Gaylord Perryls all-time win mark was. The 42-year-old ttAncient Mariner pitched his 300th career vic- tory in 1982. It was also a year for fury and. confusion in the N ational Football League. The NFL Players Association went on a 57-day walkout beginning September 21, that exacted some $210 million from the league,s clubs and more than $63 million from playersl pockets. The strike was caused by dif- fering views on the way a billion d01- lar television revenue pie should be cut. By end of the strike the NFLPA made many concessions to Commis- sioner Pete Rozelle and the club execs. In the Super Bowl Miamfs Killer Bees got stung by the Hogs of Wash- ington by a 27-17 margin. Skinls full- back J ohn Riggins scampered 43-yards t0 the goal line to put Washington on top for good. Riggins set a single game Super Bowl record with 166 yards rushing, ten fewer than Miamils 0f- fense collected. Former New Orleans .Saint and Miami Dolphin Defensive Tackle Don Reese revealed that he had been a heavy cocaine user and said that the league faced a drug problem of epi- demic proportions in a J une 14 Sports Illustrated article. By seasonls end superstars like Chuck Muncie and George Rogers confessed to having drug related problems. The new United States F ootball League made spring football a reality and landed both some of the biggest 14 OIOHd PHOM epwx ' t ST. LOUIS-St. Louis Cardinal players, including Mike Ramsey !on topl who scored the deciding run in the seven game World Series, celebrate after beating the Milwaukee Brewers in the annual fall classic. television contracts and college players around. Among the top-rated college stars were Heisman winner Herschel Walker and Trumaine J ohnson. Repeated blows to the head of Duk Koo Kim only 19 seconds into the 14th rounds of a WBA lightweight championship bout by Ray Mancini killed the South Korean fighter and changed the face of boxing. Kim,s death was follov'ved by the imposition of a discretionary standing eight count and a 12-round limit on all title fights. Following a May 9, 1982 operation to repair a detached retina suffered during training Sugar Ray Leonard announced that he would retire from professional boxing. Adorning a tuxedo the 26-year-old Leonard stepped into the ring for the last time for a media-event to an- nounce that his five year middle weight career would end. December 2, 1982 a man that could, at best, be described as a tllegend in his own mind7 revealed that he would no longer commentate boxing matches. Year in Review

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Tylenol poisoning claims seven lives. In early October seven suburban Chicagoans died. Not unusual for a city of more than three million citi- zens. Then a common denominator was found in the deaths. An airline stewardess, a homemaker and a young Year in Review school girl who had been ailing from a cold had all taken cyanide-laced Tylenol. The deaths kicked off a chain reac- tion of shock and panic. The result was a $100-million nationwide recall by the makers of the nationis number one over-the-counter pain reliever, J ohnson 8L J ohnson. More than 22 million bottles of the tablets and capsules poured into re- gional testing centers and authorities followed any lead they came across. To complicate matters, itcopy cati, crimes soon followed. In one instance 'another pain reliever was laced with strychnine and in another, acid was mixed with eyewash. Several weeks after the recall Tyle- nol was reintroduced to the public with a new threefold safety wrapping. Other corporations soon followed Mac- Neil Labs in instrumenting tamper- proof features. El CHICAGO-Employees of the Chicago City Health Department test Tylenol medications for deadly cyanide that killed seven Chicago area residents who took the extra'strength capsules. Wide World Photo 13

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Wide World Photo LONDON-Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales are shown with their infant son, Prince William, who was born June 21. Announcing his retirement in the Washington Post, Howard Cosell said, tTtn not doing anymore boxing . . . I donlt want to be a part of the hypoc- risy, the sleaziness . . . Fm worn out by it. D Potpourri Two questions pondered in the minds of those who observe Great Britain,s Royal Family this past year. When would the Prince and Princess of Wales add a new generation to the Year in Review Royal lineage and what would they name the child. Both of those questions were an- swered on June 21 when Prince Charles and Princess Diana gave birth to Prince William. The appearance of Prince Charles, successor, however, was not Englandls most prominent story. Headlines tainted with phrases like ttTrouble in Paradisell and ttPlease, Di, donlt . . . Youlre Being Stupid crowded the front pages of many of Englandls tabloids. By the years end the Reagan .Ad- ministration had accepted resigna- tions from Security Advisor Richard Allen, Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis and Secretary of State Alexan- der Haig. John W. Hinckley, Jr. was found not guilty of shooting the President by reason of insanity. Benjamin Sas- way became the first youth to be sen- tenced for failing to comply with draft standards. . Strains of Mendelssohn filled the air as 2,075 couples, all dressed in identical black tuxs and virgin white gowns, exchanged J uly wedding vows in unison and unilaterly exchanged gold wedding bands. The event lasted for more than two hours and united couples from 75 nations. Many stars found themselves in legal trouble in 1982. Italian movie actress Sophia Loren spent 17 days of a 30-day sentence for tax evasion in jail. The Reverend Sun Myung Moon was sentenced to 18 months for tax evasion related to his nationally known Unification Church. Car-maker J ohn DeLorean was jailed and charged with allegedly 15