With that being said, watching an old baseball documentary. Why did we give up on baseball, by the 80s we were 20% or the league, today we are 5%
Boston is really a weird place, it’s like a 50/50 mix of the trashiest white people and cool people. There’s the dumbest and the Ivey leaguers. And on. A lot of the East is that way. People like to only focus on the the Ivey league people, BCG, Bain, bankers and hipsters, but it’s when you look at sports fans that you get the real representation.
With that being said, watching an old baseball documentary. Why did we give up on baseball, by the 80s we were 20% or the league, today we are 5%
Not shocked.
They treated their greatest athlete/champion(Bill Russell) like shyt.
From Russell to KG to today’s Celtics: Being a black player in Boston
‘Flea market of racism’
Russell, who declined to be interviewed for this story, once called Boston a “flea market of racism” in his 1979 memoir Second Wind.
“It had all varieties, old and new, and in their most virulent form,” Russell wrote. “The city had corrupt, city hall-crony racists, brick-throwing, send-’em-back-to-Africa racists, and in the university areas phony radical-chic racists. … Other than that, I liked the city.’’
Russell, a native of Oakland, California, arrived in Boston in 1956 after attending the University of San Francisco. While he was Boston’s first black star athlete, he was verbally abused by some Celtics fans and never felt welcome during his playing days. His home in the Boston suburb of Reading was vandalized while he was being celebrated at a country club in the same town. Karen K. Russell, Bill Russell’s daughter, penned a story for The New York Times in 1987 and said the house was in “shambles.”
The N-word was spray-painted on the walls, beer was poured on the pool table, trophies were smashed. The vandals defecated on parts of his home, too, including his bed. Russell was crushed by the incident, according to several of his former teammates.
“Things that Russell went through made him a very angry man,” Sanders said.
On March 13, 1972, the Celtics had a private ceremony to retire Russell’s No. 6 jersey at Boston Garden. The jersey was raised to the rafters in front of players and friends about an hour before the doors opened for a game against the New York Knicks. When asked why the ceremony wasn’t open to the public, Russell told reporters: “You know I don’t go for that stuff.”
The real reason was that Russell believed he never got the respect and adulation he deserved for leading the Celtics to 11 titles because he was black.
“[Russell] said he thought that Boston was the most racist place he had been in,” Sanders said.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Sanders said, it was even difficult getting cabs because he was black, not to mention renting an apartment where he wanted to live in the city.
Deborah White, the widow of late Celtics great Jo Jo White, recalled her husband telling stories of racism that Russell and Sam Jones had to deal with in Boston. She said that Jones spoke of having “inappropriate things,” including a burning cross, put in his front yard.
Boston is really a weird place, it’s like a 50/50 mix of the trashiest white people and cool people. There’s the dumbest and the Ivey leaguers. And on. A lot of the East is that way. People like to only focus on the the Ivey league people, BCG, Bain, bankers and hipsters, but it’s when you look at sports fans that you get the real representation.
With that being said, watching an old baseball documentary. Why did we give up on baseball, by the 80s we were 20% or the league, today we are 5%
Whats crazy is i grew up playing baseball just like basketball and football, and at least til high school all of the rival teams was black just like us and we went at it on the ballfield. I cant really explain it, i was getting scouted to play college and just lost interest and gave up on the sport. Went another direction. Its wild cause baseball was a real live sport back in the 80s early 90sBoston is really a weird place, it’s like a 50/50 mix of the trashiest white people and cool people. There’s the dumbest and the Ivey leaguers. And on. A lot of the East is that way. People like to only focus on the the Ivey league people, BCG, Bain, bankers and hipsters, but it’s when you look at sports fans that you get the real representation.
With that being said, watching an old baseball documentary. Why did we give up on baseball, by the 80s we were 20% or the league, today we are 5%
It doesn't have to be long. It's not all that different from football. If you're good enough you can make it to the majors within a year or 2 of being drafted, 3 or 4 tops. That puts you in the league by 21-24, just about the same age as the NFL. The rest of the minors are basically filler for these elite talents to develop and play against. Those "filler" players may eventually become big leaguers themselves though, hence the 27-30 year old rookies. Those players are equivalent to UDFA players who bounce around a couple years before getting consistent playing time.
I used to play short stop.
