Next Week

The World Series begins, and the question is who can beat that American League pitching? Ron Fimrite describes the opening skirmishes between baseball's champions.

Hockey's newly affluent warriors open a season rich with promise. Mark Mulvoy scouts the teams and Jack Olsen has a conversation with Ken Dryden, Montreal's miracle goalie.

Pats or patsies, Boston or New England, winning or losing, the Patriots have Plunkett, a plumbing problem and a player who was a Disneyland dwarf—by Robert H. Boyle.