Baseball Quickly Comes to Its Spider Senses

If either Bill Veeck or Charles O. Finley had tried this “Spider-Man” stunt, Major League Baseball would’ve fined them in a New York minute. I’m confident that they’re both chatting right now, something along the lines of:

“You know, Charles, if it was me, I’d have the shortstop dress up like the Green Goblin, then when he tries to turn the double-play, a spider web shoots out of the base.”

“I’ll go you one better, Bill. Instead of green, we’ll spray-paint the Goblin orange and give him a handlebar mustache.”

Kind of gives credence to the old axiom, the more things change, the more they stay the same, don’t you think?

John R. Grush

Mission Viejo

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Rule 1.06 of the Official Rules of Baseball says, “First, second and third bases shall be marked by white canvas bags ... “ I look forward to seeing this rule officially amended to include the phrase “with yellow and red ads for Spider-Man 2”.

Jonathan Pearce

Santa Monica

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The idea to advertise a movie on the bags was a very clever web-based strategy for the “Spider-Man” promoters. They received a lot of advertising, knew it would never work, and spent very little money for the massive publicity they received.

Sean Bryan

Garden Grove