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It has been 70 years since Jackie Robinson broke through baseball’s color barrier and heroically weathered all the torment and abuse that came with being Major League Baseball’s first African-American player.
And all these years later — just 16 days after another uplifting anniversary celebration of Robinson’s world-changing contribution to baseball — Orioles center fielder Adam Jones is subjected to the same kinds of taunts from the stands at Fenway Park?
Sure, emotions were high Monday night. The game came just over a week after the series with the Boston Red Sox at Oriole Park in which Manny Machado spiked Dustin Pedroia at second base and reliever Matt Barnes threw a sizzling fastball behind Machado’s head two days later.