In CC Sabathia’s eight years as a Yankee, he has never heard what Baltimore’s Adam Jones listened to at Fenway Park when the center fielder had the N-word hurled at him Monday night.
However, when Sabathia was on the Indians, he heard the racial slur when he threw in the bullpen.
“Not since I have been here because we have our security guards here,’’ an emotional Sabathia said before Tuesday night’s Blue Jays-Yankees game at Yankee Stadium. “When I was with Cleveland it was bad, really bad. You get called all kind of names, called the N-word when you go to Boston.