It Was Thirty Years Ago Today

by Brent Hartzell and George Barany

As implied by the title, this "mid-week level" puzzle was released on a significant anniversary in sports history (pictorial hint to the right). After completing the puzzle (spoiler), learn more about this puzzle's hero by clicking here and here.

Click here to view or download the puzzle in PDF format; here to download it as a puz file; here to download it as an ipuz file [requires the free Puzzazz app to solve]; here to solve the puzzle interactively (thanks to Jim Horne); here for the solution. We thank Tim Croce, Martin Herbach, Kurtis Scaletta, and Alex Vratsanos for astute beta testing.

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http://tinyurl.com/thirtypuz

More puzzles here (all), here (sports), and here (tributes).

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