Readers sound off on baseball’s race history, housing migrants and N.Y. wind farms

Whiting, N.J.: I’ m a Yankees fan since 1978, but I was deeply offended at the deceitful way they marketed their“ Satchel Paige Bobblehead Night” event on Thursday, May 11, at the stadium. He was a member of the New York Black Yankees, a Negro Leagues team, for only one year in 1941. Jackie Robinson didn’ t break Major League Baseball’ s color barrier until 1947 and the Yanks...

Honor Satchel Paige and remember his exclusion

Whiting, N.J.: I’m a Yankees fan since 1978, but I was deeply offended at the deceitful way they marketed their “Satchel Paige Bobblehead Night” event on Thursday, May 11, at the stadium. Paige was pictured wearing a Yankees uniform as if he were a member of our team at one time. He was a member of the New York Black Yankees, a Negro Leagues team, for only one year in 1941. Jackie Robinson didn’t break Major League Baseball’s color barrier until 1947 and the Yanks could have elevated Paige to the big leagues then, but we didn’t and the Cleveland Indians grabbed him in 1948.

The Yankees, astonishingly, did not integrate until 1955. It’s shameful that the Yanks waited eight years to integrate and also shameful that this bobblehead gives the false impression that Satchel was a Yankee 14 years before Elston Howard came on board. Paige’s major league career ended in 1965, a decade after Elston Howard became a Yank, and three other MLB teams utilized his services. The Yankees never did.

So let’s not sugarcoat it or attempt to give a false impression here. Paige, Willie Mays and others like them were passed over. Let’s not pretend Paige was allowed to be one of us on the major league level. He is famous for his quotes like, “Don’t look back, something might be gaining on you.” Perhaps the Yanks, when considering future bobbleheads, ought to think of it as “Don’t look back, unless it’s to tell what really went on, not to suggest what you wish went on!” Chet Jelinski

Better record

Carmel, N.Y.: I found it humorous to read James O’Connell’s April 27 column, “Mets still searching for last year’s offense with rocky start to season at the plate,” bemoaning the Mets’ slow start as opposed to last year. In that same day’s paper, on the stats page, the Mets and Yankees were both 14-11. The Mets were leading the Yankees in at-bats, on-base plus slugging, average, run support, home runs, doubles and runs batted in. They had more walks and fewer team strikeouts. They also had a better stolen base percentage. Yet your paper lauds the Yankees. Stop the Yankee bias in your reporting. Larry Gerard

Took a load off

Matawan, N.J.: The three superstars who wanted to move on, from the Nets to “contenders,” fell flat on their faces with their new teams and got what they deserved after disrupting and abusing (not Kevin Durant though) the team that brought them together to win a title in Brooklyn. Bye bye, egos. Let’s go Nets. Robert Wyshynski

Villainous victim

Bronx: To Devorah Halberstam (“New York’s terrorism statute should be Ari’s Law,” op-ed, May 16): Let me remind you that Meir Kahane was a terrorist himself — in fact, he was convicted of it. He was also a racist who regularly, with his gang the Jewish Defense League, attacked and beat up Black and Brown people. Don’t glorify him. Richie Nagan

That’s a stretch

Central Islip, L.I.: Geez! How many facelifts did Martha Stewart have for that Sports Illustrated cover? Thomas Sarc

Added expense

Mahopac, N.Y.: What has gone wrong with America? NYC is jumping through hoops to assist people who have done nothing to merit the assistance they are receiving! There are still too many veterans who served their country who are not getting any of this type of help. We understand people want to come here for a better life. We should make sure we take care of the people who served to make this a country that everyone wants to come to before we give its assistance to newcomers. Putting newcomers in a school gym? The logistics do not work, no matter how vehemently the mayor says they will. Security, restrooms, showers, food — the costs alone are ridiculous. J. Garry

Commandeer

Rockaway Beach: Somebody should break the news to Mayor Adams that as long as we accept busload after busload of immigrants from all points south of the Rio Grande, they will continue to come. How many will NYC take? Is 1 million the goal? Two million? More? Migrant interest in fleeing to the U.S. for free rides to New York will not all of the sudden just dry up. It will not stop until the mayor stops it. One way is if all the buses are stopped at the state border, the drivers are arrested for interstate trafficking of people, the buses are confiscated by the state, the State Police or FBI drive to the steps of the Capitol in D.C. and drop them off, then return the empty buses to NYC as confiscated crime scene property and sold off. The Texas bus companies will soon lose interest. Patrick Clark

They need us

Bronx: To Voicer Donald Kempler: I too am a lifelong Daily News reader. As a fellow subscriber who has had his share of delivery issues, I understand your frustration. But I think it is important for us to continue to subscribe to The News. Newspapers across the country have been forced to close, merge or become online editions only. The News may not be the paper it once was, but it still deserves our support so long as it keeps publishing in print. Edward Stapleton

Plan for wind

North Babylon, L.I.: Voicer Susan Caprio questions Voicer Sara Rebecca Storch about how we can electrify while closing toxic peaker plants in vulnerable communities. Renewable energy, Storch had said. More specifically, offshore wind. Beacon Wind, off the East End of Long Island, will be plugging into the NRG Astoria site, serving Queens. Empire Wind 1 and 2, soon to rise way offshore south of the city and Nassau County and connecting at major sites of fracked gas pollution, will serve Brooklyn and Nassau. South Fork Wind is already under construction off East Hampton. Contracts in place, Beacon and Empire 1 and 2 await permitting. Together they are essential to meet our state’s climate mandate of 9,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2035, replacing dirty gas and cleaning up local air. Gov. Hochul must speed the permitting of these projects and select as many viable wind farms as possible during the next bidding process. Alexa Marinos

World-class act

Staten Island: Harry Belafonte was a legendary performer, singer, actor and a great humanitarian. I’ll always remember seeing him in person at the Palace Theater in New York and at Forest Hills Stadium when I was a teenager. We lost an American treasure. Marianne Veidt

Well said

Old Bridge, N.J.: To Voicer Joe Ewansky: Thank you for your brilliant response to the dense Voicer JoAnn Lee Frank. You clarified how there is not a shred of intelligence in the moronic crowd that follows Trump like brainless sheep. Kudos! Janet Cecin

Mystery donor

Howard Beach: Still trying to find out who posted the $500,000 bond for George Santos. Why would anyone want to come to the aid of this liar, fraudster and scam artist? Shouldn’t we know who is supporting this corrupt man and their reasons why? Barbara Berg

Stop it at the source

Staten Island: After reading Voicer John Cirolia’s letter regarding starving children in South Sudan, it is truly a sad situation. However, women in poverty-stricken countries are subservient and have no choice about anything, no less birth control. However, there is a solution, John: Men, wherever you are, keep your zipper closed, which is guaranteed birth control. Anita Giordano

New word, same thing

Manhattan: Voicer Jim Newton shouldn’t be too concerned about people identifying others as woke. In the ‘40s we had “hep cats,” in the ‘50s we had people who were “hip” to social conditions and then the ‘60s gave us the “hippies.” It’s just a matter of late bloomers trying to catch up with life and needing to search for their identities. Some of them will have a real life crisis that will put them back on track; others will probably just, as you say, go back to sleep. Bruce Robertson

Cause for relief

Scarborough, N.Y.: After reading about California’s plan for reparations, I think all American citizens should demand reparations from the feckless federal, state and local politicians who have stolen or wasted our tax dollars. Thomas F. Comiskey

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