Just another day at Fenway?

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Police protection required at Fenway?
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“Racism is deeply embedded in the city’s culture.” 

So wrote a Boston broadsheet writer given the recent racist heckling of a player on a visiting team playing at Fenway Park earlier this week.

Quincy Quarry can only properly support the following sentiments: heckling a player on a visiting team is one thing, but this beyond crass incident went so far past this as to be well beyond the pale.

From the Boston Red Sox being among the very last major league baseball teams to put players of African descent on its roster to the often vile fans in the stands, such are actually but symptomatic of endemic, however sublime, racism that pervades the Greater Boston area.

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Dusty Baker, an all around great guy to have in the clubhouse
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Said baseball great and current Washington National’s manager as well as well-known all-around great guy in the clubhouse Dusty Baker:

“It doesn’t really surprise me too much because I’ve been called that word in almost every city that I’ve played in.  Minor leagues, big leagues, letters.  So it don’t really shock me too much.  From L.A. to New York.  It’s more apparent in some places than other places.”

Be sure to note that a lack of surprise or shock is not the same thing as not being offended, even if 50 years on the road in professional baseball as a player, coach and manager might otherwise inure one to – say – lumpy hotel mattresses.

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Something from not all that long ago
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At least not until sometime after he was allowed to stay in the same hotels as the rest of the team following his drafting by the Atlanta Braves in 1967.

Read Full Story: Renée Graham: Stop pretending Boston is something it’s not – The Boston Globe

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