Robert Creamer

FOUR-CORNERSSir:Thank you for your outstanding coverage of the trends and changes that occur in professional and collegiate sports. Last fall I picked up my SI and read an outstanding article on the use of the 3-4...

YANKEE DOODLINGSir:What's so wrong if Reggie Jackson needs to be loved even though he gets a very high salary? Remember, man does not live by bread alone. If Jackson plays as well as he can, the Yankees and Yankee...

Sir:For those of us who were around when Hack Wilson played, Mark Kram's article (, April 11) is one of the best written, most poignant and most convincing ever to appear in your magazine.EMIL STECK JR.Pasadena, Calif.

Scads of books about sport have been published during 1974, and choosing among them for holiday gift-giving is no easy task. Here, in hopes of making things a bit less difficult, is a list of those of particular merit.

Sir:Robert W. Creamer's (March 18) evoked a boyhood memory. The time must have been between 1916, when "he was the best left-handed pitcher in baseball," and 1918, when "he began his transition from mound to outfield."