I learned that the Red Sox were the last team to integrate, and I filed that away, too. So even as a kid, I learned to be afraid of Boston and the Red Sox, and when I thought I would be traded to them, I was worried. In recent years I’ve run into the Red Sox general manager of that era, Dan Duquette (ironically, now the G.M. I tweeted thanks to the Red Sox fans for the standing ovation given to Jones. And we have to recognize that the Red Sox’s aggressive response against it probably would have gone differently if it had been the Red Sox of my teenage years.

Source: New York Times May 05, 2017 23:48 UTC