Baseball Strike Ends

Regarding “Another Strike and You’re Out,” editorial, April 4:

I’m a baseball fan who is fed up with the prima donna baseball players! Who do they think they are? These players need to accept the reality of their salaries. They are overpaid. This country has many young, aspiring ballplayers who would be happy to play the game for the fun of it, not for the salary.

Football and basketball players have no problem accepting salary caps. Possibly the baseball salaries could be based on their performance for the season. Make them work for their money. Not only would the owners love this, it would solve the salary problem and make room for the aspiring players.

CHRISTINE TURNER

North Hollywood

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Major League ballplayers agreed to play ball after seven months of fruitless negotiations with the owners (April 1). How did this last-minute agreement to play happen?

President Clinton had more to do with this than anyone else. The National Labor Relations Board, stacked with a majority of Clinton cronies, voted against the owners, which was upheld by a judge employed by the federal government. Donald Fehr, players’ representative, remained unaffected and arrogant for seven months, but got the bailout he needed from Big Brother, the federal government.

The ballplayers, meanwhile, say this isn’t about money, but for the love of the game. Excuse me while I throw up.

JAY KARELIUS

Granada Hills

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I am a big fan of Al Martinez. I like his warm sensitive approach to people and issues affecting them, but his April 4 column (“Tears on a Field of Dreams”) offended me. No matter what sanitized term we use for a scab, ergo “replacement player,” a scab is still a scab.

MOLLIE ZUCKER

Los Angeles