Four

My 4th published letter to the editor. First in the NY Times.


Runs Tell the Tale

To the Sports Editor:

A graphic accompanying Murray Chass's Aug. 8 column ("Fans at Fenway Are Facing a Stern Test of Faith") argues that the Red Sox and the Yankees have baseball's fifth- and sixth-best offenses based solely on their batting averages.

What kind of logic is this?

Baseball teams attempt to score runs. Measuring anything else — including hits per at-bat — is a diversion.

At that point, the Red Sox had scored 606 runs, and the Yankees 601. These are the second- and third-best offenses in baseball.

[me]