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This is Retro Sports Radio. Visit RetroSeasons.com for more sports history.

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Today I'd like to answer a few more of the questions sent in by the members of the listening audience.

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I appreciate getting these letters and I only wish I had time to answer all of them.

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However, I'll answer a few just as soon as we have this important message.

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Alright, fans, let's dip into the mailbag and see what we shall see.

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The first letter comes from New Orleans and is signed by a mother who doesn't want us to mention her name.

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This lady wants to know if professional athletes live as long as other people.

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Frankly, I've never looked into it, but I would certainly want all of you to know out there

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I think athletics has done a great deal in building up the bodies of some of our people

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and I certainly wouldn't think that athletics had anything to do with the shortening of the life of anyone.

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Next, a question from a listener, a Mr. Browning of Dallas.

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He wants to know how old a youngster should be before he is allowed to have his own hunting rifle.

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Well, Mr. Browning, I think that depends upon the kind of experience that he has at home,

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the kind of parents that he had at home, and the kind of teachings that they give him.

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If he is able to understand all there is to know about guns, I certainly believe he can have a gun at most any age.

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As a matter of fact, I talked to an expert in this particular field

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and he said he would much prefer having his kid know all the details than him going to someone else's

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who had a gun and not knowing anything about it.

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It's his contention that a person who has never had any experience with guns

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is the one who causes all the serious accidents that we've had.

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Now here's an interesting letter from a 14-year-old lady from Los Angeles, Miss Barbara Ness.

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Barbara asks if I consider wrestling to be a sport or a form of entertainment.

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Well, Barbara, as I see television and as I skip over the wrestling matches that I've seen,

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I would have to consider it as a form of entertainment.

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I don't believe anyone can absorb the punishment that some wrestlers take

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and then come back as fresh as if nothing had ever happened unless there was something fixed about it.

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A study lister for Wilmington, Delaware, who simply signed his name and admire, asked,

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Don't you agree, Jackie, that there are some people who can never learn how to swim?

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Well, frankly, sir, I don't know. I, for one, don't like the water at all.

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But I think that if I went out and started practicing, I could learn how to swim.

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I think that anyone who really took an interest in swimming, took the time to work at it, could learn how to swim.

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I could be wrong, but I think a person could learn how to swim if he wanted to.

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Well, I enjoyed answering your letters. Maybe we'll do this again before long.

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And that just about does it for now, fans. See you soon.