Let’s Open the Mail Bag and Take the Rubber Band Off Stack of ’87 : It’s a Matter of Degree

EDITOR’S NOTE: These letters represent many of the best received by The Times in 1987, and reflect the leading issues and events discussed in Viewpoint during that period.

Al Campanis devotes three-quarters of his life to baseball with an unblemished record and, lo and behold, he suffers a 30-second lapse of tactfulness and for this is told baseball has no place for him.

What in the hell is going on here? Something is terribly wrong. I’m trying to make sense of this.

James Lofton is accused--not once, but twice-- of sexual assault. And here the Raiders and 49ers are trying to negotiate a trade to acquire Lofton. They want him.

P. .J PADILLA

Escondido