Letters to the Editor: L.A. is still in turmoil, but Dodgers celebrations were a nice reprieve

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To the editor : I didn’t feign sickness to get out of work and attend a parade ( “The Sports Report: L.A. turns out to support the Dodgers, who talk about a three-peat,” Nov. 4). But I watched coverage of the Dodgers’ victory lap and I saw what I saw at Dodger Stadium throughout the season: Latinos, Asian Americans and others speaking the common language of baseball. But instead of eating peanuts and Cracker Jack, they’re washing down takoyaki with micheladas.

Baseball wasn’t always so joyful. In 2017 , an Astros player called Dodgers pitcher Yu Darvish “chinito” and used his fingers to pull on the corners of his own eyes, forcing me to revisit the childhood trauma that’s p