Viewpoint Readers Never Take an All-Star Break

Regarding Ross Newhan’s tired whining about the fans’ choices for the All-Star game (“Fans Get It Half Right,” July 5):

The fans got it all right. We always do. Who cares what Newhan thinks? We elected the players we want to see as starters in the All-Star game. This makes all of them the right choices. The game is played for baseball fans, not for sportswriters.

Newhan may think he knows better, but several million of us fans have different opinions. We know how to read and interpret statistics, and we understand the subtleties of the game every bit as much as sportswriters do, and we are certainly no less objective.

The process works impeccably. Indeed, writers’ opinions on who should start are meaningless. Let them vote with the rest of us. We got who we wanted to see.

DAVE YOUNKER, Lake Forest

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Today [July 8] Ross Newhan had a wonderful story regarding Walt Weiss and his son. The recovery from his illness is a heartwarming story. But somehow the real news, what happened to all 17 children infected, was not in the story.

I join with many in being happy that Mr. Weiss, a multimillionaire baseball player, has a happy, healthy son. But I am also concerned about the other kids: Don’t their lives have a vital place in the story? How much better for this world if the Colorado Rockies had flown all the healthy survivors to the game.

JOE GODWIN, San Diego

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Making Bud Selig commissioner of baseball is like appointing Goldilocks to protect the home of the three bears.

ART GONZALES, Ventura