For Readers and Writers, Here’s a Year of Best : Year of the Old Guy

Wow! Jack Nicklaus wins the Masters. Bill Shoemaker wins the Kentucky Derby. Vin Scully sounds better than ever.

I used to be 46 years old, but now I’m only 25.

TOM LAUBERT

Las Vegas

Editor’s note: These letters represent many of the best received by The Times in 1986