Letter: Jeter should help ball-catcher
Derek Jeter rounds third base heading for home after hitting a solo home run for career hit No. 3,000 on July 9, 2011. The Yankees were ranked by Forbes as the third most valuable team in the world. The Jets and Giants also both ranked in the top 10. Credit: David Pokress
About your editorial on Christian Lopez ["Crack of the bat brings good karma," July 14], he did not return the ball from Yankees star Derek Jeter's 3,000th hit, as you stated. That would suggest that he had something that belonged to someone else. He did not return it, he gave it away.
For a mega-millionaire player to accept such a valuable gift from a person in debt, without compensating him, does not, for me, "restore a bit of faith in humanity." I see it as another example of how the rich are only too willing to exploit the goodness in the rest of us.
A "breath of fresh air" would have been to read how the mega-millionaire paid the man top dollar for his gift. The least he could do would be to offer to pay off Lopez's student loans.
Dennis F. Dunne, Selden
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