While I think you’ve got a valid point that white people use “civility” to cover racisim, baseball’s unwritten rules date back forever, into the time when the only people breaking them were other white people. They’ve always been an excuse for prickly, chicken-shit, red-asses like John McGraw or Leo Durocher to…

I don’t think you were quite saying what he accuses either, but it raises a fair question. To me it seems either you are saying that demonstrative behavior always has been ok for white people, but brown people don’t get to because racism, reasons you cited, etc. (I’d add that under-23 players like Harper are…

I want to be there when you tell this to Bob Gibson.