Letter from Robert Smith

Politics Don’t Belong in Bball

I am an out-of-town subscriber to “The Freeman’s Journal,” and have been for many years. My wife and I visit Cooperstown as many as six times a year from Kenmore, New York, mainly for our love of this amazing village. We are members of the Hall of Fame, Fenimore Art Museum and the Cooperstown Art Association. We use “The Freeman’s Journal” to stay in touch with what’s happening in and around Cooperstown.

The latest delivery of “The Freeman’s Journal” showed a picture of our divisive president signing a baseball for Pete Rose. We all have an opinion on both.

With that said, I was appalled that the Journal would post this picture front and center on page one. I would expect and accept something as an editorial or “The Partial Observer,” but front and center turned me off.

This is a baseball story for a baseball town and should not involve politics.

Robert Smith
Kenmore, New York