Reading Plaschke Is a Real Experience

For many years, I was able to relax and lose myself in the toy department of the local newspaper, the sports page. First it was in New York with Jimmy Cannon and Milton Gross, and then in 1983 I turned to Jim Murray in The Times.

Now I can’t even do that: Bill Plaschke has seen to that with his bleeding-heart, racial political agenda. Please transfer him to the left wing of the paper so I can once again enjoy the more centrist sports section.

FRED BRENNER, Marina del Rey

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Finally, Bill Plaschke, who has a habit of annoying and antagonizing readers, may have found his forte. Instead of analyzing and filling in the numbers, he has finally painted a picture.

His profile of Keyshawn Johnson [Jan. 16] shows us this athlete. He sets the hook early and never lets up. He shows us Keyshawn’s ups, downs, struggles, successes. We get the feeling of being in his head, what he went through. He shows us a boy becoming a man, a man who repays kindnesses and second chances to help other boys.

If Plaschke can remember how he did this, we hope he will do it again.

DIANE MACFARLAND, San Marino