For Readers and Writers, Here’s a Year of Best : The Way They Were
In Oakland, the Raiders were not just a football team, “they were a way of life.” Oakland is a tough town to live in, cold, mean, reminiscent of the way the Raiders used to play football.
MIKE SALINAS
Los Angeles
Editor’s note: These letters represent many of the best received by The Times in 1986
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