Red Sox Will Push To Rename Fenway Park Street Named For Racist Former Owner

[blackascoal]

The team’s current leadership is “still haunted” by the racist legacy of the owner Jackie Robinson called “the most bigoted man in baseball.”

The Boston Red Sox will lead an effort to change the name of a street near their stadium named after a former team owner who has been decried for years as a racist, current owner John W. Henry told The Boston Herald on Thursday.

Yawkey Way, which runs alongside the team’s Fenway Park, is named for Tom Yawkey, who owned the franchise from 1933 to 1976. Under his leadership, the Red Sox passed on the chance to sign Jackie Robinson ― who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 ― and did not sign their first black player until 1959.

Yawkey’s stance against signing black players reportedly cost the Red Sox a chance to sign Hall of Famer Willie Mays, and made the franchise the last team in baseball to integrate its roster.

Yawkey died in 1976, and the street outside Fenway was named for him a year later. But that could change if Henry gets his way.

“For me, personally, the street name has always been a consistent reminder that it is our job to ensure the Red Sox are not just multi-cultural, but stand for as many of the right things in our community as we can – particularly in our African-American community and in the Dominican community that has embraced us so fully,” Henry told the Herald.

Henry, who bought the Red Sox in 2002, added that he is “still haunted by what went on here a long time before we arrived.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ushpmg00000009

.. and the cultural war continues .. with racists being kicked back into the Stone Age.

[cawacko]

Kicking the city of Boston out of the country would be a good start

[Minister of Truth]

They should change Yawkey Way to...

YANKEE WAY!!

HAHAHA Suck on that, Boston Strong!!

[cawacko]

They should change Yawkey Way to...

YANKEE WAY!!

HAHAHA Suck on that, Boston Strong!!

Now this is funny. The Yankees are the Evil Empire but God Bless them for making Boston fans suffer for so long

[dukkha]

a pox on both. Long suffering Orioles fans get stuck in the same division of teams who can buy a pennant

[Minister of Truth]

a pox on both. Long suffering Orioles fans get stuck in the same division of teams who can buy a pennant

The Yankees moved to NYC from Baltimore.

[dukkha]

The Yankees moved to NYC from Baltimore.

Highlanders I think they were.
Birds are a small market and getting smaller. Nobody wants to drive thru Baltimore to get to the inner harbor,
and attendence is off (plus the Washington Nats of course)

[Minister of Truth]

Highlanders I think they were.
Birds are a small market and getting smaller. Nobody wants to drive thru Baltimore to get to the inner harbor,
and attendence is off (plus the Washington Nats of course)

Yep, 1913 the original O's became the Highlanders (Yankees in 1916). Baltimore is definitely becoming a city in decline.

[dukkha]

Yep, 1913 the original O's became the Highlanders (Yankees in 1916). Baltimore is definitely becoming a city in decline.

it's the pits.
I couldn't think of a better place to grow up - southern charm, but northern business like city
with access to the mountains and the ocean and DC just down the road.
It's the dumping ground for mid-Atantic poor now

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The team’s current leadership is “still haunted” by the racist legacy of the owner Jackie Robinson called “the most bigoted man in baseball.”

The Boston Red Sox will lead an effort to change the name of a street near their stadium named after a former team owner who has been decried for years as a racist, current owner John W. Henry told The Boston Herald on Thursday.

Yawkey Way, which runs alongside the team’s Fenway Park, is named for Tom Yawkey, who owned the franchise from 1933 to 1976. Under his leadership, the Red Sox passed on the chance to sign Jackie Robinson ― who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 ― and did not sign their first black player until 1959.

Yawkey’s stance against signing black players reportedly cost the Red Sox a chance to sign Hall of Famer Willie Mays, and made the franchise the last team in baseball to integrate its roster.

Yawkey died in 1976, and the street outside Fenway was named for him a year later. But that could change if Henry gets his way.

“For me, personally, the street name has always been a consistent reminder that it is our job to ensure the Red Sox are not just multi-cultural, but stand for as many of the right things in our community as we can – particularly in our African-American community and in the Dominican community that has embraced us so fully,” Henry told the Herald.

Henry, who bought the Red Sox in 2002, added that he is “still haunted by what went on here a long time before we arrived.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ushpmg00000009

.. and the cultural war continues .. with racists being kicked back into the Stone Age.

LMBO!!!!! What a bunch of whiny wimps. Waaah waaaah.....sniff sniff.........mommeeeeeeeee I want it!!!!! waaah waaaaaaaaah!!!!
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[cawacko]

The team ought to be haunted by its racists fans. How about kick them all out of Fenway.

[blackascoal]

LMBO!!!!! What a bunch of whiny wimps. Waaah waaaah.....sniff sniff.........mommeeeeeeeee I want it!!!!! waaah waaaaaaaaah!!!!
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:0) The only one whining here is YOU.

Never noticed that, huh?

[blackascoal]

The team ought to be haunted by its racists fans. How about kick them all out of Fenway.

Let's see how they take naming it Big Papa Way?

[cawacko]

Let's see how they take naming it Big Papa Way?

He was pretty loved there so I'd assume he'd get a pass

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:0) The only one whining here is YOU.

Never noticed that, huh?

Uhhhhhhhhhh no. Keep whining your little hyper-offended victim heads off till mommeeeeee gives you everything you want.