{"id":28627,"date":"2008-03-01T17:55:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T01:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trackandfieldnews.com\/?p=28627"},"modified":"2019-03-27T18:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T01:09:52","slug":"from-the-editor-february-2008-happy-60th-birthday-to-track-field-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trackandfieldnews.com\/from-the-editor-february-2008-happy-60th-birthday-to-track-field-news\/","title":{"rendered":"From The Editor \u2014 February 2008: Happy 60th Birthday To Track &amp; Field News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! The first edition of T&amp;FN rolled off the presses in February of 1948 (see p. 37). As the first few decades rolled by, birthdays didn\u2019t seem all that important. The 10-20-30-40 milestones went unremarked in our pages, before we celebrated 50. And now we\u2019re at 60! What was happening in the previous landmark Februaries?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28629\" src=\"https:\/\/trackandfieldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/195802_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"270\" \/>10th BIRTHDAY, FEBRUARY 1958:<\/span> Back when the indoor circuit was huge, three pictures shared the cover\u2014Eastern Michigan soph Hayes Jones winning the AAU 60H title, Yale frosh Tom Carroll beating Harry Bright in Boston KC 1000y and Villanova senior Ron Delany winning the Philadelphia Inquirer mile. The lead stories were Delany just missing the World Record at the AAU and Keith Gardner leading Nebraska at the Big 8 Champs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28630\" src=\"https:\/\/trackandfieldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/196802a_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"187\" \/>20th BIRTHDAY, FEBRUARY 1968:<\/span> Our \u201c20th Anniversary New Look\u201d found the magazine going to full-page pictures on the front page for the first time outside an Annual Edition. Fittingly, Dick Fosbury\u2019s new look in the high jump\u2014heretofore rarely seen outside the West Coast\u2014graced page one. Inside the magazine, the NCAA\/AAU war still raged and Bob Seagren raised the indoor vault WR to 17-4\u00bc (5.29).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28632\" src=\"https:\/\/trackandfieldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/197802_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"187\" \/>30th BIRTHDAY, FEBRUARY 1978:<\/span> Highlighting our rankings of \u201977\u2019s best off-track athletes, the cover dubbed Bill Rogers \u201cKing Of The Road.\u201d Inside, high jumping was huge, with a World Record 7-7\u00bc (2.32) from diminutive Franklin Jacobs and a pair of ARs from Joni Huntley. And 10 years after Fosbury, our Tech Talk author postulated, \u201cAlthough the straddle should be the high jump technique of the future, it probably will not dominate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28633\" src=\"https:\/\/trackandfieldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/198802_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"187\" \/>40th BIRTHDAY, FEBRUARY 1988:<\/span> Jackie Joyner-Kersee was so good that she might have been Athlete Of The Year based just on her long jumping and hurdling. But for good measure she also dominated the heptathlon. The Soviet Union and East Germany were still in full flower, so JJK was the only American to gain a No. 1 rank. The Women\u2019s Performance Of The Year still stands today: Stefka Kostadinova\u2019s 6-10\u00bc (2.09) in the high jump.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28634\" src=\"https:\/\/trackandfieldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/199802_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"187\" \/>50th BIRTHDAY, FEBRUARY 1998:<\/span> For the first time, we actually made a big deal out of getting old (err, our maturity). \u201cKing Carl\u201d Lewis was feted on the cover as \u201cthe best of our 50 years.\u201d It was his record 13th appearance, a mark that still stands. Inside we detailed a lot of history, with a by-year recap, interviewed cofounder Cordner Nelson and chose our 50-year All-Star Team.<\/p>\n<p>It has been my pleasure to have worked on no fewer than 496 of our 759 issues (my first was January \u201970). Managing Editor Sieg Lindstrom, Associate Editor Jon Hendershott, Publisher Ed Fox and Executive Publisher Janet Vitu have also been around forever. The joys of working for T&amp;FN tend to make it a lifetime commitment. After all, Cordner is still writing for us as he approaches his 90th (see p. 37).<\/p>\n<p>So at that rate, you\u2019ll only have to put up with me for another 30 years or so, as I have every intention to be reading (if not writing!) the landmark 1000th edition of the magazine in \u201928. That will be delivered by Apple\u2019s latest gadget, direct from us to your brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! 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