If Someone Has the Answers, Let Him Know

With apologies to David Letterman and WGN-TV Chicago, here’s my sports list of things I don’t know:

10. How Vin Scully, all by himself, can describe a game on the radio, and yet ABC needs three guys to explain a game we’re watching on TV.

9. Why Harry Caray describes every fly ball as a “high” fly ball.

8. Why all major leaguers, even rookies, wear gold chains on the field.

7. Why Harry Caray describes every pop-up as a “high” pop-up.

6. How Pee Wee Reese got into the Hall of Fame with 2,170 hits and a .269 batting average.

5. Why Harry Caray, after 40 years in broadcasting, still can’t pronounce Hispanic names.

4. Why Vada Pinson, with 2,757 hits and a .286 average, isn’t in the Hall of Fame.

3. Why Harry Caray can’t say Chris Sabo’s last name.

2. Why the Atlanta Braves are in the Western Division and the Atlanta Hawks are in the Eastern Conference.

1. Why the baseball commissioner lets managers dress up in players’ clothes.

DAVID MACARAY, Rowland Heights