Ballpark behavior

I couldn't agree more with the May 2 Forum piece "Sports Then, Sports Now." I fondly remember attending both Pirates and Steelers games at Forbes Field in the '30s and '40s with my father, who wore a dress shirt, tie and fedora (straw hat) in a well-behaved and respectable crowd of men uninebriated by booze and inhibited from scurrilous language, and with a collegiate moral standard.

It is a far cry from what most modern athletes, and their fans, seem to value today.

CLIFFORD M. LANE JR.
Upper St. Clair