Robert Boyle

•The talent-rich San Francisco Giants, favored by many to win the pennant, have turned into the most puzzling team in baseball. Robert Boyle penetrates the mystery.

WORLD OF THE NEGRO BALLPLAYERSirs:The Private World of the Negro Ballplayer (SI, March 21), is a welcome oasis in a desert of the usual superficial, sentimental coverage of Negro and white relationships in sports....

Spring exerts its influences in odd as well as customary ways, in fever as in flowers. So perhaps a visitor to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED offices these days might well wonder what seasonal madness goes on when two men...

PHYSICAL FITNESS MUST START IN THE SCHOOLSSirs:I read with interest Mr. Boyle's article The Report That Shocked the President (SI, Aug. 15) and the accompanying comments offered by various people in public life.

This article, based on original manuscripts submitted by Managers Caustin, Frazier and Rettman, was prepared by ROBERT COUGHLAN, with the assistance ot SAM WELLES, chief of SI's Chicago Bureau, and ROBERT BOYLE...