Mets history & good memories

Jackson, N.J.: Re “Seaver crushes power pitchers” (May 26): Tom Seaver was my favorite pitcher as a young Mets fan in the 1960s and I saw him pitch many times at Shea and I’m still a Mets fan to this day. This article will be invaluable for my 12-year-old son, who is a very good and cagey pitcher who is always critiqued for his velocity. He was our best starter all season in Little League, walking only three batters the entire season. But it’s the kids who throw 70 mph over the backstop getting all the kudos. Tony Sasso Edison, N.J.: I miss Seaver on the mound. In my office, I have two signed baseballs from him as well as a black and white picture of him, Koosman, Gentry and Ryan from 1969. The Mets are so naive in not having him involved in lecturing their pitchers or even having a statue of The Franchise! Just because you have money doesn’t mean you’re smart! Marty Kwitter Porter Ranch, Calif.: I was a big Tom Seaver fan even though I grew up in the Bronx and bleed pinstripes. Steve Kaplan

Mets farm is barren

Omaha, Neb.: The problem with the Mets is not with the injuries, but with general manager Sandy Alderson and company who were trading away so many top prospects that there are no viable players to call up. It’s going to be years before the front office can rely on the minor league system.

Tom Dahulick

Mets should protect players

Saddle Brook, N.J.: I am happy to see that the New York Mets are protecting their fans by extending the netting at Citi Field. This should cut down on the number of injuries. Hopefully, protective netting can also be installed around their players to accomplish the same purpose.

Joe Savoia

Insult to fathers

Yorktown Heights, N.Y.: NBC News anchor Megyn Kelly is going to air an interview with Newtown massacre denier Alex Jones on Sunday. For NBC to give this man air time on Father’s Day is an insult to all the fathers who lost their children on that horrible day and a slap in the face to the pain they surely still suffer. Putting the controversial Jones on network TV is just a grab for higher ratings for Kelly and has nothing to do with actual journalism. Anthony Vegliante

Make good decisions

Seattle: Re “Michelle Carter found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for sending boyfriend texts encouraging suicide” (June 16): Actions and decisions are about consequences. Most people, including teens, are aware of consequences. The judge made the correct decision and now Carter will experience the consequences to her life-ending decision and actions toward Conrad Roy III. There are no winners but there can be justice. Parents, talk to your children about what is the right action and the correct decision. Melinda Lamp

Dad fought WWII in vain

Palisades Park, N.J.: My father fought in WWII so that America will continue to have and enjoy the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. To me, what is most important is the right to vote for the people who are in our government and lead our country. However, lately it has become painfully obvious that my father’s time spent fighting in WWII was in vain. He fought to protect our right to vote but more and more Americans are not voting. If you don’t like someone who is in our government you vote them out of office, you don’t kill them. Perhaps James Hodgkinson’s bloody rampage would not have happened if all Americans had exercised the right my father helped protect. The results of the last election would have been different and this sickening bloody rampage would have never happened. Gary DiMora

Va. shooting a wakeup call

North Bergen, N.J.: Speaker Paul Ryan almost got it right when, in response to the tragic shooting at the Republican Party’s baseball practice in Virginia, he told his fellow congressmen that an attack on one of them is an attack on all of them. Each year, thousands of civilians are shot on our streets. It’s time Congress finally realizes that there are too many guns in the wrong hands. The perpetrator in the attempted ballpark massacre purchased his weapons legally. This should be a wakeup call for Congress to finally recognize the need for serious gun control legislation. Will they hear it? Irving A. Gelb

Stop blaming liberals

Great Neck, L.I.: Just a few hours after some maniac with a rifle shot at people on a ball field in Virginia, Newt Gingrich decried that it was the rhetoric from liberals that caused this incident. That is the clearest example of “fake news.” One needs to remind Gingrich of who it was that recently passed a health-care bill that is expected to cause over 20 million people to lose their health insurance and then had a party at the White House to celebrate and flaunt this point. This is also the same piece of legislation that a mere 17% of the country supports, and which Donald Trump has recently called “mean.” I think Gingrich needs to think before he speaks.

Eliot Gonshorek

Trump right about Cuba

Rockaway Park: The Daily News’ coverage of Trump’s new Cuba policy lacks the full story on the administration’s reason for the change. The reasoning behind the decision was because the new policy institutes a prohibition on financial transactions with companies controlled by the Cuban military that only benefit the Castro regime and not the 12 million Cuban people with no civil rights, lousy health care and limits on climbing the ladder of success. How would you like to earn $20 a month for 30 years? Where’s your outrage on the real suffering that goes on? This is from a Cuban-born, Flatbushraised Rockaway resident who witnessed first-hand the atrocities of the Castro regime that go on to this day. Jesus Linares

Trump’s a spiteful guy

New Hyde Park, L.I.: I am firmly convinced that if President Obama found a cure for cancer, Trump would repeal it and let people die just to spite the former President and his supporters.

Bob Wiecezak

We should help our own

Wellsville, N.Y. : I don’t understand how we can’t help our own people. My son has $150,000 in student loan debt and no one will help him, but we are going to help pay for immigrants’ legal services? This is debt that will burden him the rest of his life, but the immigrants can sleep easy.

Janet Arnold

Abuse survivor’s grateful

Los Angeles: My heart is full of gratitude for Gov. Cuomo and those advocates who have not given up the fight for justice. In 2002, I came forward about my own abuse at the hands of a priest on Long Island. For more than 15 years I’ve been denied a day in court. My heart breaks year after year as legislation is shot down by Senate Republicans. Will New York legislators in the Senate finally take a stand for the disempowered? I pray so.

Dave McGuire DAILY NEWS

Warriors are bad role models

Glendale: While I rooted for the Golden State Warriors to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals, it appears as if this group of athletes are not good role models. They have publically indicated that they will probably not visit the White House if invited. I call on all of the athletes who’ve been complaining for the past couple of years about “social injustice” and “inequality” to stand up and encourage the Warriors to act like grown, mature men and accept a presidential invitation if sent. This would set a good example about meeting with those you disagree with.

Thomas C. Murawski

Race horses abused, too

Bronx: To Voicer Natasha Brenner, who asked why carriage horses aren’t given the same consideration as circus animals, I ask this: How come you activists never go after racetracks, where horses are beaten to win a race? Is it that some of you gamble? Afraid of organized crime? Racetrack horses are treated far worse than carriage horses yet there’s never a word. What’s the deal? Stephen Hill Bronx: The New York City Council wants to ban wild animals from circuses. Will the wild animals in zoos be next? Denis Buckley