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Podcast: BBCollective
Episode: - Racism Boston & Sports
Description: Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts examine the complicated history of Boston sports and race. The focus centers on the Red Sox and Celtics franchises, but not before acknowledging one teamâs ethos of âwhite slot receiver/failed white college quarterbackâ need not even apply. From Tom Yawkeyâs steadfast refusal to employ top black ballplayers to an oft-described mercurial pitcherâs racially prescient comments decades later and the subsequent dealing of a black superstar in recent times the Sox racial history is surely an unbalanced one. Like their north-end based brethren, the Celtics hi...