LETTERS

⇑⇓ WILL THE PROPOSED OAKLAND A'S BALLPARK IMPEDE A FUTURE PORT OF OAKLAND ESTUARY TURNING BASIN?

Seriously, the concept of a waterfront ballpark adjacent to the second-busiest shipping port on the West Coast, which already has storage woes and an industrial metal reclamation site with terrible access … well, that wasn't very well thought out for the fans. (And the pedestrian bridge [tune in to next month's Letters for a discussion of the proposed "bike bridge.")

Besides, the A's are headed to Vegas — So there!

Erik Simonson

www.pressure-drop.us

Erik was commenting on the March 8 'LL with the same name as this letter.

⇑⇓ REGULATE, THEN BANK THEIR MONEY

Who's zooming whom? I'd make darn sure there are no conflicts of interest! But as we have often seen, officials in charge of regulating industries retire with hefty pensions and are immediately hired by the very groups they were charged with regulating!

Ken Brinkley

⇑⇓ EIGHT BELLS FOR BOBBI TOSSE

Bobbi Tosse — aka Barbara Ann Tosse — was the most important person in my life. I loved her very much. We were married for 26 and a half years and had a wonderful life together. Bobbi and I both contracted a very nasty obscure respiratory virus during our recent trip to Stockholm. I recovered from it after a week on oxygen. Unfortunately, she didn't. She died on February 2, after a long hospitalization.

Bobbi went to Cal Berkeley and got her bachelor's degree in accounting in 1965, where she met Lloyd Tosse at the Cal-Stanford game rooting squad (Go Bears). They married and had two sons, David and Michael Tosse. After Bobbi and Lloyd divorced in 1973, she set up a business-in-home doing tax preparation. Four of her major clients, whom she did for free, were Berkeley Yacht Club, Berkeley Yacht Club race committee, Pacific Cup Yacht Club, and the Yacht Racing Association of SF Bay.

Bobbi and Lloyd joined Berkeley Yacht Club in 1971; she learned how to sail with Lloyd on their Columbia 26, Altair. Lloyd eventually became BYC commodore for both 1977 and 1978. Bobbi became BYC commodore in 1993.

Bobbi took over being the BYC race chair, and held that position until she died. She was very good at it. She also revolutionized women's racing on the Bay. Among her many accomplishments, she converted BYC's patronizing Powder Puff race into BYC's Women's Skipper series, and added