Over at Blissful Knowledge, Dr. Manhattan has published some thoughts on baseball's legacy on race, and how it's still affecting the way one franchise, the Boston Red Sox, still does business today (which is something both Jim Rice and Mo Vaughn could tell us something about):
Why have the Boston Red Sox not won a World Series in 84 years...and counting?In an effort to keep warm through this longer-than-usual (for a Yankee fan) baseball winter, I recently paged through a book that offers a partial answer to that question. In Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston, Howard Bryant (a sportswriter for the Bergen Record who grew up in Boston) details how, for many years after Jackie Robinson entered major league baseball, the Red Sox did not attempt to sign black players and passed up chances to sign players such as Willie Mays. Even after the Red Sox integrated, Bryant describes how, into shockingly recent times, the team has often made life difficult for its black players. Others such as Glenn Stout have also described how the Red Sox
