It’s Time to Enroll for ‘Sports Geography 101’

With regard to Tuesday’s Morning Briefing, I agree with Mark Heisler (and thus perhaps disagree with Mike Piazza) that diversity of national origin is very good for baseball. However, the concept of internationalism cannot be said to extend to Puerto Rico, as Mr. Heisler implies. After all, Puerto Rico became a U.S. territory during the Spanish-American War and its residents have been U.S. citizens since 1917.

MARK J. MORROW

Valencia

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Randy Harvey commented on how Bill Veeck was attracted to characters [June 4]. He mentioned Jack Soo, a “Chinese actor” who hit it big with “Barney Miller.” Sorry, Randy, being Japanese, Soo found out, didn’t open doors. Soo’s name was Goro Suzuki.

VAL RODRIGUEZ

Signal Hill