The Red Sox, Yankees, and racism in the history of baseball

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Did Racism keep the Red Sox from being a championship team, as well as pave the way for the discovery of Micky Mantle? Dean Lawrence R. Velvel interviews Tufts University Professor and author of
Reynolds, Raschi and Lopat: New York's Big Three and Great Yankee Dynasty of 1949-1953, Sol Gittleman in this episode of The Massachusetts School of Law's Books of our Time.

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[ajnatheiconoclast]

the truth hurts.....

[LEGGZ617]

think i shud throw out my hat

[pats4lifebb]

@mst3k54 did you watch the video?? "the yankees were just as racist, as a matter of fact, jackie robinson SUED NY, not boston, for racism, truth hurts,

[pats4lifebb]

@mst3k54 What source do you have to back that up? none, I win this debate, Oh and also, 2004 NY yankees, now I really win

[mst3k54]

@pats4lifebb OK, here are some facts. The sox are the most racist and hypocritical organization in sports. Also, NOBODY outside new england cared about boston until they finally won their first WS in 86 years. All of a sudden everyone had a blosox hat around 2004. They're a fad

[pats4lifebb]

@mst3k54 It's worth noting that the Red Sox play in the smallest stadium in baseball. As such, they don't appear to pick up as many fair-weather fans in the good years as other clubs, even when you adjust for the rapid price escalation in Red Sox tickets starting in the late '90s. But there have been plenty of years since 1991 where the Sox have been bad, and even so, the fans stuck with them at the second-best rate in baseball, so get your facts stright,

[pats4lifebb]

@mst3k54 New Yorkers aren't used to losing, and they don't like it. This isn't to say Yankees fans are rowdy and passionate, but if the club loses, as it did in the early '90s, attendance drops. Back in 1991, it cost less to go to a Yankees game than to a game for the now-defunct Montreal Expos, and even so, only 23,009 people came to each Yankee home game. When they were winning in the early 2000s, attendance doubled.

[mst3k54]

@pats4lifebb I made that comment over a year ago. Loyal fans base? Wow, you're really hammered, huh? They have the most BANDWAGON fanbase in sports. Femgay park's attendance was pitiful in the 80's and early 90's They're a fad! And a lousy one at that

[pats4lifebb]

@mst3k54 carl crawford is white? david ortiz is white? I think the only drop dead drunk here is you, The red sox have the most loyal fanbase in the history of american sports

[mst3k54]

@pats4lifebb Yeah, if you do enough drugs you'll think the sox are great and not the most hypocritical douchebag organization in all of sports. There's a reason every blosux fan is a fall-down drunk.

[pats4lifebb]

@mst3k54 this kids, is why you dont do drugs

[palmares77]

The AL league was historically the last league to really fully integrate Black ballplayers anyway. The NL always was more representative of what America looked like. A major melting pot.