To the editor:

I read the USA Today article about the need to protect baseball fans with netting that separates them from home plate flying objects. I couldn’t agree more. I realize that this letter won’t do much to change this situation, but here are 10 ideas about how to make it happen:

1. Call the baseball commissioner and ask him to require the owners to install netting.

2. Research netting materials that offer less obstruction to vision but are more effective at stopping flying objects.

3. Eliminate the verbiage on admission tickets that supposedly relieves the owners of any liability.

4. Put the heat on owners to be accountable; sue them if necessary.

5. Have the Players Association Union and human rights groups pressure the owners and corporate sponsors who think netting is not necessary.

6. Don’t believe that fans who don’t want the netting will quit buying tickets. True baseball fans won’t quit coming, because they like the game.

7. Advertise the cases and locations where human injury has occurred

8. Contact the team owners whose stadiums have yet to install netting (20 our of 30 Major League teams) and let them know you won’t support their team if they don’t install netting.

9. Share with fans at the game and elsewhere about this national pastime crime.

10. Pray for change to occur.