That iconic photo of Bob Gibson striking out yet another Detroit Tiger in the 1968 World Series graces the NY Times sports section today. Tim Wendel,, author of the forthcoming book “Summer of ’68: The Season That Changed Baseball, and America, Forever,” describes that Cardinal team as “a ballclub that reveled in its racial diversity, a rainbow coalition well before the Rev. Jess Jackson ever coined the phrase.” But the writer also speculates that Gibson’s early struggle that season may have been partially caused by his sadness from the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. . . Also in the Times’ Travel section is a piece outlining how actual human beings (called “travel agents”) can sometimes still find surprisingly cheaper and better flights than Expedia, Kayak and other on-line sources. . .Haaretz, Israel’s oldest daily newspaper, reports that “A child sex abuse scandal in Australia’s Jewish community has spilled into America, as a pending extradition, arrests in Australia and a slew of cover-up allegations put that community’s response to molestation under scrutiny.” One case involved the possible extradition of convicted child molester David Kramer, now in a Farmington, Mo. jail on suspicion of having abused children at a Chabad school in Melbourne during the 1990s. Kramer, “who was reportedly spirited out of Australia by one of Melbourne’s Chabad leaders following abuse allegations, is halfway through a seven-year prison sentence for sodomizing a 12-year-old in St. Louis.”

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