Editor:

After reading editorial and letters to the editor, I can't resist adding my cheap thoughts on the season's-long American Legion baseball controversy. First of all, where are the Legion's assets that have been appropriated by the group that left the program?

Better yet, what assets? I covered the team on radio for years and served a short-lived term on the board. I can't recall one time, one time! when a representative of the Legion attended a board meeting.

I can't recall the Legion ever contributing money, loaning money or giving money to the team. There was no help that I can recall, raising money at the games. Ask yourself have you ever seen anyone in a Legion hat selling fifty-fifty tickets?

Someone needs a better definition of "assets" and how they were acquired in the first place.

The Star-Tribune's editorial about Legion teams playing non-Legion teams is rather hollow when one looks at the schedule for Post No. 6 in Cheyenne. A quick check finds Cheyenne playing several Colorado Connie Mack and several Colorado high school teams - not always Legion squads.

Maybe the paper should have saved its angst for the "adult" who threatened Legion teams that played Casper. I've coached kids and reported on their games for four decades - they don't care if the other team is part of their league. They just want to play!

In this case it was an adult who stood in the way.

The question that really needs to be asked? Shouldn't the people who raise the funds, take care of the ball park, transport the kids and spend all the money on equipment and training be able to decide who coaches those kids?

Maybe the "adults" who took the ball and went back to their Post were disgruntled because a manager quit before they could fire him. Oops! They didn't have that authority either! A suggestion for the Legion: back to the Post and listen some more to the Boss and his song, "Glory Days."

JACK NOKES, Casper