Hey, sports guys!

I liked (“Off-field cheats find on-field friends,” Oct. 23) a lot. Note that Whitman and Einstein aren’t “contemporary” Americans, and that Eisenstein was German. Other than that, good writing and good opinion.

– Oscar De Soto
Washington, D.C.

Michael Responds: Thanks, dad, for giving me the business. Yes, you’re right. Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. But did you know that he became a U.S. citizen in 1940? He was naturalized in a New Jersey courthouse. As for your other slur on my great work, Whitman died in 1892 in his New Jersey home. Though their lives were not “simultaneous,” they were “contemporaries” as far as Webster’s New World Dictionary is concerned.

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