It’s not like there hasn’t been any major news happening in the United States lately, even for the “stick to sports” crowd that certainly keeps its own word and never reads anything that doesn’t involve athletes or athletic contests.
So maybe you missed the news that last Friday the membership of the Baseball Writers Association of America — the BBWAA — overwhelmingly voted to remove Kenesaw Mountain Landis’ name from the MVP trophies it hands out each year.
The reason? There’s a good amount of evidence that Landis, Major League Baseball’s first commissioner, was racist.