Dick Williams

The Tigers leaped to the fore in every game as they bounded past the Padres to win the 81st Series

As the season draws to a close, here are some firsts that could happen and records that could be broken:

The division-leading Padres had been a peaceable bunch until they made a call on the Braves. Then a nasty brushback war broke out

BOXING—CHANG JUNG KOO of Korea retained his WBC light flyweight title by stopping Japan's Katsuo Tokashiki on a ninth-round TKO in Pohang, South Korea.

Should the Mets, a last-place team in 1983 and a first-place team so far in 1984, win the National League East, they will be almost as good a story (fairy tale?) as the '69 world-champion Mets, who came off a...