If Howe Comes Back, Then What About Rose

I gasped when I heard that Fay Vincent, the baseball commissioner, was to allow Steve Howe to pitch again, after Howe’s six suspensions for drug and alcohol abuse.

Well, now I reserve opinion.

I’m hoping Vincent was magnanimous in realizing that sometimes drug addicts need professional treatments, love and additional chances more than they need to be punished as outcasts.

If Vincent can ingratiate himself to a six-time failure, maybe we can expect the commissioner to advocate the return to baseball of Pete Rose, along with Rose’s induction into the Hall of Fame.

DAVID SCHLITT, San Diego