The Moment Of Truth

January, 1972

The Physical Area in which an athlete works has strictly measured peripheries: an outfield wall 400 feet from home plate, a basketball court with painted boundary lines, a wooden rodeo fence surrounding dirt and dust. And in this tight physical environment, the athlete is given a precise amount of time or number of chances in which to do his job. This explains the magic ability of sports to produce intense realities from a set of artificial conditions. The seven men on these pages, all top perfo...