Richard Frey

BASEBALL—The LOS ANGELES DODGERS won the World Series four games to one. Dodger righthander Orel Hershiser, who won the second and fifth games, was named the Series MVP (page 32).

A reader wrote us recently and began, "Not knowing if anyone will ever read this letter...." The writer might be pleased to know that almost everyone around here will read that letter or a copy of it. Someone has to,...

In the long light of history The Decline and Fall of New York by Gerald Holland (SI, Jan. 11) may not overshadow a more extensive treatise on the similar fate of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. But already...