BOSTON — A dark blue banner with red letters reads “Welcome to Yawkey Way,” and on Friday morning it still hung over a street lined on one side by shops selling Boston Red Sox gear and souvenirs, and on the other by the brick facade of the team’s century-old home, Fenway Park.
The question was, how long would the banner, and the name, remain?
The Red Sox this week strode purposefully into a roiling national debate about racism, monuments and history when the team’s owner, John Henry, said the club would renew its efforts to have the city rename Yawkey Way.