At a future Busch Stadium home opener, Adam Wainwright will wear a red jacket on the field before the game. But before Friday’s home opener, he planned to wear something else of significance on the field: A “Black Lives Matter” T-Shirt.
“It’s genuine, it’s because those lives do matter to me,” said Wainwright, the great Cardinal righthander. “If somebody has something to say about an organization, that’s fine. That’s not why I’m wearing that shirt. I’m wearing that shirt because my teammates said it means a lot to them. Because I want to love them well, and their lives matter to me.