It Took 2,131 Games, but We Finally Found Good News in Baseball

The glorious celebration of Cal Ripken and his marvelous achievement was the best reminder that the inherent decency of baseball will always outshine the few, but all too visible, louts, clowns and idiots who manage to worm their way into it.

KEN MARCUS

Los Angeles

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Cal Ripken is to baseball what Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck are to the literary world. Deion Sanders is to baseball what John Grisham is to the literary world.

This is the difference between grace and integrity, and greed and egoism.

JON MEYER

Hermosa Beach

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Cal Ripken’s record-setting 2,131 baseball games should be put in perspective. Considering the average worker has 240 working days a year, 2,131 games is almost nine working years. How many people have worked 10 or 15 or 20 years or more without missing a workday and will never make any Hall of Fame, be glorified in the press and TV, and receive only a pin or a watch for their efforts?

It speaks volumes about our societal values.

JACK ALLEN

Pacific Palisades

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Am I the only person who finds it ironic that the day that Cal Ripken tied the iron man record by playing in 2,130 consecutive games, Hideo Nomo had to leave his game after five innings because of a broken fingernail?

ROSS GOLDBERG

Woodland Hills