Walter Mitty

The best big league games I've ever seen were played on the floor of my boyhood bedroom. The players were cards inscribed with a series of black-and-red numbers. When those figures were combined with the numbers that...

Dear Mom and Dad:Tapocketapocketapocketa. That's the sound James Thurber's Walter Mitty heard as he imagined himself piloting a Navy hydroplane, and preparing for delicate surgery, and leading an Allied bombing...

EMPRISE AGAIN

The special Baseball Issue presents for the seventh successive year a report from the spring training camps on the strengths and weaknesses of the 16—no, 18 now—major league teams. George Plimpton, one of the editors...

No dream of Walter Mitty's is more replete with hazard than the real-life sporting event known as the Modern Pentathlon, an athletic ordeal comprising five consecutive days of riding, fencing, shooting, swimming and...