As a political science major in college, I had thoughts of getting into writing about politics. Baseball, however, grabbed hold of me and never let go. How was I to know that at this late date I would find a reason to combine the two interests?

I combine them through the name David Samson: the southeast David Samson, who is president of the Miami Marlins and the northeast David Samson who is a long-time friend and ally of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and possibly part of a scandal that has seriously undermined Christie’s efforts to gain the Republican nomination for president.

The political Samson, who has also served in the Christie administration, has not been accused of …

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One thing – probably the best thing – I like about getting rid of the younger readers who visited this web site in its early months, the ones who think they are baseball fans but are really WAR and VORP fans, is the remaining readers are clearly adults who appreciate adult writing that uses the English language. If they have an opinion on a particular column, pro or con, they express it in proper English and not gutter language.

They make it possible for me to use what they write without deleting every other word, that is, the offensive language that doesn’t belong here. I appreciate what they write even if they disagree with me. With all of that said, I turn over the rest of this column to readers who have written to comment on recent columns …

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This column is dedicated to readers of The New York Times. It is designed to correct the mistakes in its baseball coverage that the Times refuses to correct and disabuse the readers of the false notions the once but no longer great newspaper creates with its baseball coverage.

The column will only further aggravate, perhaps enrage, Times editors, who are sensitive to and resent criticism. It’s okay for the newspaper to criticize owners, coaches, managers and players, but don’t dare criticize the critics.

Readers who are baseball fans feel the Times deserves criticism for the severe reduction in the quality and quantity of its baseball coverage – soccer, rugby and cricket seem to appeal to the editors more than baseball – but that’s for another column. This one will deal with …

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