The protests that have happened in many cities in the United States of America following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer have exposed things that have been covered up in this country for too long.
I have been told I should remain silent on this topic, as it doesn’t relate to baseball. I won’t, and it does.
The relation to baseball is shown clearly in this remarkable discussion in The Athletic. Moderated by former Cub Doug Glanville and The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal, it included retired MLB players including another former Cub, LaTroy Hawkins, as well as Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard, Dontrelle Willis and Torii Hunter.