NEW HIGH: Thirty-two people are recorded as...

NEW HIGH: Thirty-two people are recorded as having climbed the highest peaks in all 50 states. But nobody as quickly as a Balboa Island psychotherapist, who has an amputated leg. Todd Huston, 33, started his odyssey June 1 and on Sunday reached the top of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea (13,796 feet). Huston, who lost his right leg below the knee at age 21, reached all 50 peaks within 68 days, bettering the record of 101 days. . . . Alaska’s 20,320-foot Mt. McKinley was the toughest, he says. “It usually takes 14 to 18 days, if you make it at all. We took 12 days.”

LAST TIME: The 50-day baseball strike in 1981 actually turned out well for Angel fans. (C1) . . . The Baltimore Orioles’ Doug DeCinces was the American League player representative during negotiations and was later traded to California in what many saw as retribution. He joined other key union figures, such as Bob Boone and Reggie Jackson, to form the nucleus of an Angels team that took the AL West in 1982. Angel general manager “Buzzie Bavasi had some insight,” said DeCinces, a Corona del Mar resident. “We were active in the strike, but we could help a team win.”

DAVE’S WORLD: TV producer Dave Forman, whose company is based in Irvine, is a veteran of reality shows. For six years he produced “On Scene: Emergency Response.” Now he’s producer-host on a new venture, “Special Access,” which started daily at 5:30 p.m. this week on KCAL-TV . . . . It has stories about real life, just not emergencies. Says Forman, who lives in San Clemente: “I like to take viewers places they can’t go on their own.”

STILL PICKING: At age 12, Gordon McClelland (E1) had a job picking oranges near his hometown of Villa Park. While the county’s citrus groves have practically disappeared, McClellan’s fascination with the paper labels on old orange crates has only grown. Now it is antique dealers who go “picking” for these labels, and McClelland, 43, has parlayed his interest into a life’s work, not just buying and selling the colorful labels, but writing books as well.