Let’s Hear It for What’s-His-Name

Regarding the fan sitting in the lef field pavilion at Dodger Stadium who couldn’t see the difference between Ledee and Repko [Bill Plaschke, “Dodgers’ No Name Defense Doesn’t Fly”]:

What Snider and Robinson and Campy and Koufax and Drysdale and Wills and all but two of the Dodgers’ six fabled world championship teams didn’t have on their backside is good enough for me.

Steve Ross

Sherman Oaks

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Cesar Izturis isn’t being recognized by All Star voters? What do they expect when the guy doesn’t even have his name on his jersey?

Nick Rose

Newport Beach

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I am amused to hear that Frank McCourt says that he has taken the names off the back of Dodger jerseys to promote better teamwork, when he seems to think that the team needs to be completely reformed every year.

Maybe when the Dodgers are the same players for a year or two, we can talk about doing things to promote teamwork.

Isaac Rosenthal

Los Angeles

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The problem with removing the names from the uniforms is that players usually don’t stay with a team for the bulk of their career as they did years ago.

Everyone knew Sandy Koufax was a Dodger or that Willie Mays was a Giant. Today, you don’t know who the players are unless they have their names on the back because at any given year, they could be with a new team.

I say, put the names back on! Seriously, I’ve been a Dodger fan for over 45 years and if I can’t recognize their faces or read the numbers on their back, at least maybe I could read a name.

Steve Shaevel

Woodland Hills

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So, Frank McCourt removed names from uniforms because he wanted to return to tradition. How about the tradition of winning games?

Mike Berliner

West Los Angeles

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In this day and age of free agency and rent-a-ballplayer, I’d suggest the Dodgers not only put the names on the back of uniforms, but also an expiration date.

Ron Tom

Pasadena