Bitter pill

Original Toronto Star caption: Bitter pill: Looking as if he had been weaned on a pickle, Toronto Maple Leaf owner Harold Ballard takes a back seat while former Leaf captain Darryl Sittler basks at the microphone after being welcomed out of the doghouse and back as the Leafs' leader. The reconciliation came after a one-on-one meeting between Ballard and Sittler without their usual advisers, lawyer Alan Eagleseon and ailing Leaf general manager Punch Imlach.