When East Meets West in the Major Leagues

I think Ross Newhan must have caught the same flu bug that felled George Bush in Japan. Newhan seems to think that America’s pastime is using a double standard in allowing persons of Japanese descent to play American baseball and earn the millions of dollars that this sport pays even marginal talent. What Newhan fails to point out is that Japan puts a quota on American eligibility in Japanese baseball. Being that Americans are currently far superior to Japanese in baseball, which system is fair?

Just because Americans would like to think America can actually own their country’s baseball teams does not make them hypocrites. It means we are actually viewing long-term plans vs. short-term profits. By the way, that is a Japanese business philosophy.

RAY SCARCELLO

Canyon Country