No one among us is a saint — well, few of us are, anyway. Yet we all must stand tall against people who are the devil in fancy trappings. Too many wear such clothing.One of them is Jon Gruden, the misogynistic, homophobic and racist former coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. Gruden’s public persona didn’t […]
Not a single option would have placated every person who called himself a fan of the Cleveland baseball franchise. For over a century, their team trudged across the U.S. with an image on its jerseys that demeaned a people.Trying to massage reality could never erase that its nickname — Indians — had outlived its racist […]
Major League Baseball might have lost forever a generation of Black boys and girls, and I know that all its bold talk about helping Generation Z’ers of color fall in love afresh with the sport hasn’t led to a real commitment of any sort. I voice such criticism after watching an NBC quiz show. Yeah, […]
They played baseball Saturday afternoon at League Park. Two sandlot teams from the suburbs put the diamond to use, a rarity.For League Park, a $6.3 million ballpark in the Hough-Fairfax neighborhood, often goes unused, a brick-and-mortar symbol of lousy governance; it reflects how people without vision lord over all-things Cleveland.Folks who live in the city […]
Few things are worse than a white elephant, particularly when the elephant comes with a $6.3 million price on its backside. That is the money that went into League Park, a historic ballpark in the heart of a Black neighborhood. League Park spent almost 40 years in decline, and it might have collapsed altogether were […]
A friend called and asked me had I heard. “Heard what?” “Aaron died.” Amid all the tumult in the United States, Henry Aaron’s death Friday added to the nation’s misery index. While Aaron wasn’t the face of Major League Baseball, he could have been, which is America’s melancholy. For if any star deserved its reverence, […]
A friend of mine called me Saturday night with the news. And in this era of Trump, lies and the coronavirus, not much news is good. I would call what my friend told me no exception. His tone coated in melancholy, he said Dwight “The Blur” Anderson had died. He was 59. Now, I must tell you […]