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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bostong...M/amp.html

The Red Sox want Boston to change the name of the street they play on, Yawkey way, because Yawkey was a "racist"

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The Boston Red Sox are asking the city of Boston to change Yawkey Way back to its original name, Jersey Street, saying the move is intended to send a message of inclusion.

“Restoring the Jersey Street name is intended to reinforce that Fenway Park is inclusive and welcoming to all,” the team said in a statement.

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Last year, the team’s principal owner, John Henry, said he wanted to change the name of the street, which honors a former team owner who has been called a racist.


The late Sox owner Tom Yawkey, for whom the street was named in 1977, owned the team from 1933 to 1976.

During Yawkey’s tenure, the Red Sox were the last Major League baseball club to integrate, finally calling up their first black player, infielder Pumpsie Green, in 1959, 12 years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Not only did the Red Sox pass on signing Robinson and other black stars of the era, Yawkey is believed to have screamed a racial slur from the grandstands at Robinson and two other black players at a team tryout in 1945. (The person who yelled out the slur has never been positively confirmed, the Globe has reported.)

The Yawkey Foundations issued a statement expressing deep disappointment, saying that the team was taking an action “based on a false narrative about Tom Yawkey and his record as the team’s owner.”

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Yawkey “attempted to acquire and promote black ballplayers throughout the 1950s,” the statement said. It also said Henry, who also owns The Boston Globe, “fails to take into account the entirety of Tom Yawkey’s life and his generosity to the city he loved.”

The Red Sox statement acknowledged the charity’s “incredible” work.

“It is important to separate the unfortunate and undeniable history of the Red Sox with regards to race and integration from the incredible charitable work the Yawkey Foundation has accomplished in this millennium and over the last 16 years,” the team said in its statement.

“The positive impact they have had, and continue to have, in hospitals, on education programs, and with underserved communities throughout Boston and New England, is admirable and enduring. We have the utmost respect for their mission, leadership, and the institutions they support.”
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Baseball is boring as shit but now I won't root for the Red Sox, even in the world series, because they want me dead.

Post: #2

Never in my life have I been so glad that I don't understand one bit of baseball.

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I've been to a couple baseball games at Fenway park and it is a great American tradition. Changing anything about it is terrible.

I think John Henry needs to change his name because it is racist. Remember that slave that they made beat the steel into rocks with a sledge hammer? He said "John Henry goin' beat that pile driving machine" it's racist.

Aloha!

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Go Yankees!!!

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Boston has always been a Shithole of a city whenever I go visit there. Heck, Holy Cross will not call themselves the Crusaders anymore because it offends Muslims. Well, they have always been a shithole of a college

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The Blackhawks are on the white guilt bandwagon too. At a recent game against the Capitals, a black player on Washington (Devante Smith-Pelly) was being taunted in the penalty box. There were some white fans chanting "basketball" at him, implying a black person should be playing basketball instead of hockey.

This was obviously a joke to anyone with common sense, albeit a politically incorrect joke. But my God did it cause a shitstorm and the snowflakes were out in full force. All the headlines and hockey fans were talking about how racist the chant was, and how the Blackhawks must take action to fight racism. Seeing the headlines, you'd think they were chanting the n-word or something, you know an actual racial slur. This is what I thought actually happened before reading more into the story. The misleading, cockcucker media has no shame.

So of course the fans were permanently banned from ever going to a Blackhawks game again. Talk about an overreaction.

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I'm a Yankees fan that's been to Boston for a game. It's the best neighborhood in baseball and is known for being one of the last old school baseball towns in the league. This is just overt over reaching. It is well known Boston was the last to accept black players, but every team besides the Dodgers was racist at one point or another. So basically, we'd have to clear all of baseball history before 1947. What the fuck is wrong with people?

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(03-25-2018 11:25 PM)TigOlBitties Wrote:  The Blackhawks are on the white guilt bandwagon too. At a recent game against the Capitals, a black player on Washington (Devante Smith-Pelly) was being taunted in the penalty box. There were some white fans chanting "basketball" at him, implying a black person should be playing basketball instead of hockey.

This was obviously a joke to anyone with common sense, albeit a politically incorrect joke. But my God did it cause a shitstorm and the snowflakes were out in full force. All the headlines and hockey fans were talking about how racist the chant was, and how the Blackhawks must take action to fight racism. Seeing the headlines, you'd think they were chanting the n-word or something, you know an actual racial slur. This is what I thought actually happened before reading more into the story. The misleading, cockcucker media has no shame.

So of course the fans were permanently banned from ever going to a Blackhawks game again. Talk about an overreaction.

I remember the Blackhawks incident. Caused a big debate for all NHL fans, even on the east coast. I made the counter argument that white players face this is basketball all of the time, yet nobody cared. It was my understanding the n-word was said though, but I'm not 100% sure. If it wasn't, then I don't see it as a racist chant, just trash talk that black guys do to white basketball players all of the time. It's an easy shot.