When Major League Baseball unveiled its ballot for the Latino Legends team Tuesday, the 60 nominees excluded two of the greatest Hispanic players ever: Ted Williams and Reggie Jackson.
Williams and Jackson's names seem out of place in a group with Roberto Clemente, Orlando Cepeda, Pedro Martínez and Rod Carew, but Williams's mother was Mexican and Jackson's father was half Puerto Rican and played in the Negro leagues.
When Major League Baseball unveiled its ballot for the Latino Legends team Tuesday, the 60 nominees excluded two of the greatest Hispanic players ever: Ted Williams and Reggie Jackson.
Williams and Jackson's names seem out of place in a group with Roberto Clemente, Orlando Cepeda, Pedro Martínez and Rod Carew, but Williams's mother was Mexican and Jackson's father was half Puerto Rican and played in the Negro leagues.
davidmarver wrote:Change the title of the thread. Believe me, I've been through this.
What do you mean?
Big fireworks over racial stuff.
Yes doctor, I am sick. Sick of those who are spineless. Sick of those who feel self-entitled. Sick of those who are hypocrites. Yes doctor, an army is forming. Yes doctor, there will be a war. Yes doctor, there will be blood.....
davidmarver wrote:Change the title of the thread. Believe me, I've been through this.
What do you mean?
Big fireworks over racial stuff.
Well what do you think Mad, should I change it? And if so, what to? Personally, I don't see how there would be even a problem with it. Seems pretty straight forward and relevant to the article to me.
This all stems from having a racial team in the first place
Where would a guy like Derek Jeter go?
They're probably saying Williams isn't because he made the All Century team. A Latino absence from that team was a stated reason for having the All Latino team in the first place, and that fact totally undermines the 'reason' for the team.
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by Rirruto » Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:51 pm 
