19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

Santos could perform at any spot on the baseball field, except as a pitcher. In 1936 I saw him in a four-game series against an American League All-Star team headed by Rogers Hornsby, and including such players as Pinky Higgins, Red Kress, Eric McNair, and pitchers such as Ted Lyons and Jack Knott. In this series at Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Santos played in the outfield, and in the four games he got 13 hits. All in all, he played for 25 years and usually hit around .500 for all his games.

But it was as a catcher that Santos was at his best. I have seen Hartnett, Berra and Dickey, and none of them was any better than Santos Amaro. You cannot say anything about a baseball catcher better than that.
BILL WALSH
McAllen, Texas

REBOUNDS
Sirs:
Now that the season is over, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for both your cover story on Bill Bradley at the beginning of the season (Dec. 7) and your article about the Princeton-Providence game (A Whole Team Touched by Stardust, March 22). I suppose more people than you care to count have reminded you of some of your incorrect forecasts, so it took a lot of courage to stick your neck out for an Ivy Leaguer.
STEVEN H. PRINCE
Ithaca, N. Y.

Sirs:
Bradley, me eye! What about the best player on the best team, Gail Goodrich, the man who had 28 points in 28 minutes against the same decimated team (sans the great Stallworth and the tall Bowman) from Wichita that Bradley and his buddies stepped on after their UCLA letdown in a much more important game?
PATRICK E. RUDMAN
New York City