Letters
August 06, 2001
Clutch Hitter
Jack McCallum's story about major league pinch hitters (Waiting Game, June 25) brought back memories of my attending games at Ebbets Field during the 1930s. In '32 Johnny Frederick (above) of the Brooklyn Dodgers hit six pinch-hit home runs, eclipsing a season record that had lasted 19 years. It is also interesting to note that Frederick in 1929 established a rookie record of 52 doubles, which still stands.HERM BRUNOTTE, Town of Tonawanda, N.Y.
Family Man
Phil Mickelson should be applauded for making time for his family (Back from the Dead, June 25). Didn't you publish an article on athletes who fathered children out of wedlock and then ignored them? Yet you jeer someone for throwing a birthday party for his two-year-old daughter. Phil is the type of athlete we should look up to.
BLAKE BUCHANAN, Hartsville, S.C.
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