found: His Five strides on the banked track, 1971.
found: Iooss, W. Sports people, 1988:CIP t.p. (Frank Deford) author info. sheet (b. Dec. 16, 1938, Baltimore; lives in Westport, Conn.)
found: Sports illustrated, February 20, 1967:page 24 (Chapel Hill's tobacco rogues / by Frank Deford)
found: Information from 678 converted Dec. 15, 2014(sr. ed., Sports illustrated)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed May 30, 2017(in obituary published May 29: Frank Deford; b. Benjamin Franklin Deford III, Dec. 16, 1938, Baltimore; d. Sunday [May 28, 2017], Key West, Fla., aged 78; mined the sports world for human stories and told them with literary grace over six decades in Sports illustrated, a shelf of books, and many years of radio and television commentary)
