KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If anyone thought the Adam Jones incident at Fenway Park last month was going to just blow over, yesterday was a reminder of how the conversation about race in Boston and the country is far from over.
On a day when the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum celebrated a gift of $1 million from Major League Baseball and its players association, NLBM president Bob Kendrick said institutions such as his museum offer a needed home base to continue a dialogue that did not begin with segregated baseball leagues and is far from over now, as the Jones case confirms.