He Learned the Hard Way

From today's Syracuse Post-Standard newspaper (Syracuse, NY)

To the Editor:

OK all you Yankee fans out there, I admit I made a huge mistake in my June 10 letter about the New York Yankees currently not having the class of the team in the 1960s, with the exception of Derek Jeter.

I have been bombarded with calls and letters ever since and my sister is mad at me.

I have no objections to Damon, Posada, Cairo, Matsui, Torre, Rivera, Guidry, Mattingly and Cabrera, being on the class list, and I will even throw in George Steinbrenner.

But to my surpise, most of the callers don't ever mention Chien-Ming Wang and Josh Phelps.

Also, they are all better ball players than I am.

Al Hampton
Liverpool