ON THE COVER: HSR Grand Pricks Series #6 honors the poor man's Steve Prefontaine-Rick Bayko of Newburyport, MA and Yankee Runner. WHY? WHY NOT? The daring and resourceful Polish Rifle once ran a 2:20 Boston marathon, once raced the Olympic Trials, once beat Bill Rogers mano-a-mano over 30K in New Bedford, once lugged out of the Boston Marathon feet first and toes curled after trying to run thru the wall, and once use to race 50 for ten and 25 for 5 with the (relative) ease of falling off a greased barstool.  In the mid-70's, Bayko founded the seminal Yankee Runner Magazine and for years ahead of the curve in fighting the moldy old moss-backed AAU.  Remember them? They're long-gone but Bayko is still here, and if it weren't for him, we'd probably still be required to wear woolen singlets in 95 degree July road races.  The North Medford Club original (when NMC was king of New England) was never, ever an elitist despite his raw talent (he once trained with the likes of road death-dealing 47-for-10 Englishman Brian Lamkin).  Nope, if you happened to drop by Rick's house you were more apt to find him talking with the likes of hard-core plodders like Eddie Sienkiewicz or Sig Podlozny (80 years of racing experience-no victories)  But I have saved the very best (and Rattiest) for last.  Rick Bayko always treated the pinning-on of a race number as something nearly sacred.  This guy has never run a race as a workout in his life. -never "tempoed" , never "cruised", never settled for the "comfort zone".  All his efforts, from Olympic Trials to a dinky NMC club race, were balls-to-the-wainscotting varsity pukers.  What a novel concept.  How anti-Galloway-ian.  Yes, I can think of dozens of more famous runners to honor in GPS #6-but none more worthy.  Lets race!