19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

NOT PLAIN BILL
Sir:
Our deepest thanks for your having told the true story about Bill Veeck (Back Where I Belong, March 15).

I am a minor investor in Mr. Veeck's group, an honor and a thrill that is normally reserved for boyhood dreams. There are few men who can enliven, motivate and contribute like Bill Veeck, and we are proud to have him in Chicago and we shall enthusiastically share him with the nation.

He might contend that it is his "last hurrah," but we all feel that there will be a few pennants flying before that occurs, and if not, we will still have lots of fun.
GENE FANNING
Chicago

Sir:
Fascinating wheeler-dealering aside, Veeck's comments concerning Jack Brick-house intrigued me most. I'm a Chicagoan and a Cub fan—barely able to remember the last pennant—and a devoted sufferer through the Dallesandros, Terwilligers, Serenas, Jeffcoats, Minners, et al.

I cheered when I learned of Veeck's opportunity to purchase the Sox. It doesn't surprise me even a little to find that "the Brick" came to his aid. A great many people, big and small, are just plain baseball fans, especially in Chicago. Veeck and Chicago—a worthy match.
JOHN A. HILDEBRAND JR.
Dallas

Sir:
Veeck as in "velcome beck!"
C. M. WARD
Olean, N.Y.

MISSING PERSONS
Sir:
Those were great stories about Rosi Mittermaier and Franz Klammer (Everything's Rosi, March 15) and the joy in their villages over their triumphs at the Winter Olympics.

Now, what does Detroit plan for Sheila Young—America's outstanding champion in Innsbruck?
WILLIAM E. W. GOWEN New York

Sir:
Even after you received all those letters protesting the absence of Dorothy Hamill on the cover during your Olympic coverage, you not only omit her picture from the March 15 issue, but you also report on her victory at Goteborg in the figure-skating world championship with a microscopic paragraph in FOR THE RECORD.

I feel that you have done the sport a grave injustice by neglecting to cover what was probably Dorothy's amateur finale—and the first U.S. victory in this event since Peggy Fleming's in 1968—while you saw fit to use five pages to report on two foreign Olympians.
EDWARD A. SLAVIN III
Trenton, N.J.