This Trade Was Bigger Than an Ordinary Riot

In your May 19 Newswire item on Roberto Baggio, the premier “centrocampisto” (midfielder) in Italian soccer, there were two inaccuracies.

Juventus paid Fiorentina $20 million, not $16.5 million, for the rights to Baggio. And the item makes no mention of the fact that the night before the transfer was announced, Juventus and Fiorentina played to a scoreless tie, making Juventus the European champion.

It is as if after the fourth game of last year’s World Series, Will Clark announced he was moving from the Giants to the A’s.

PETER STAMELMAN, Universal City