Then There’s Barry, and His Giant Mouth
Kudos to The Times for addressing it at all, but if a white baseball player didn’t care about passing Mark McGwire’s home run totals but wanted to “erase” Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa from baseball, we wouldn’t be talking about his “arrogance”; we’d be talking about his racism.
Dan Oakes
Hacienda Heights
Barry Bonds erase Babe Ruth? Bonds couldn’t even erase a lead-footed Sid Bream, scoring from second on a single to left, costing the Pirates a trip to the World Series. How many world championships does Sir Barry have? Ruth won a World Series with the Red Sox, for gosh sakes!
Don Wood
Ventura
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