Sox ask Boston to change name of Yawkey Way back to Jersey Street

A lot of those folks on the Spotlight Team that did that series are people of color. Labeling them all as idiots is a pretty regrettable look, at best.

Fenway =/= the Back Bay.

I'd think you'd be up to speed on things which are clearly delineated in an established published form.

Arlington, Berkeley, Clarendon, Dartmouth, Exeter, Fairfield, Gloucester, Hereford, Ipswich, Jersey, Kilmarnock, Longwood

They are all are or at one point British Baronies.

Massachusetts Ave and The Fenway are excepted owing to the original intent of their design. I don’t count Park Drive because originally the entire road around The Fens was called The Fenway.

As far as the naming scheme goes, the Back Bay and the Fenway were planned together. Later development skewed what we think of Back Bay development towards Bay State Road instead.

Other places with common names; Dorchester Heights in SB has Gates Street, Thomas Park, Mercer Street, and Knowlton Street. All high ranking War Of Independence officers who served under Washington. Dorchester Heights / Telegraph Hill was also known as Mount Washington at the time the streets were laid out.

One down ...

It would not surprise me if Lechemere gets renamed to North Point when the station moves in a few years.

Why do you care if they want to change the street name? They are changing it back to what it used to be. It shouldn't have been changed in the first place.

"EVERY OTHER WHITE PERSON was racist in Boston pre 1980"

SMH (x1000, then start on you.)

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Head to the library for some useful texts on how to use apostrophes and appropriate use of ampersands.

Next up - take a look at who is running the Red Sox these days. Unlike Hope Hicks, they aren't millennials. This has been a concern since the origins of the curse in the business practices of the Yawkey family came to light while most millennials were just getting their first gloves.

racist history and continuing to name a street in honor of a notorious racist. You probably did some awfully dumb things in your youth: I expect you've learned that just because you once did, you don't need to keep doing them.

(And I know it's popular to bash millennials as delicate snowflakes, but I am grateful that some of them are stepping up and speaking out against the idiocies of their elders. Lord knows we olds don't seem to be much inclined to clean up many of the messes we've made.)

Crude generational stereotypes aside, consider what the late 50s / early 60s Sox might have accomplished had they not been the last team in the majors to integrate. That hateful Neanderthal of an owner had a shot at signing Jackie Robinson, FFS. Even if you're not a Sox fan, you should be cheering this move. This long-time Fenway half-season ticket holder is.

They have '47 on them. What is the significance of that year in Red Sox history? 1946 was a pennant, 1948 was a near-miss, but I don't know what they are commemorating for 1947.

It's reasonable to conclude that Yawkey was a racist in the 40's and 50's, when the Sox rejected Robinson and Mays and became the last MLB team to integrate.

But what about afterwards? People are capable of change. Red Barber, the Hall of Fame broadcaster for the Dodgers, grew up in the segregated South and very nearly resigned when he was told that the Dodgers would bring Jackie Robinson to the majors. His wife talked him out of it, and he realized he was wrong, and eventually became one of Robinson's biggest backers.

I can't say for sure that Yawkey repented, though testimony from some of the Blacks who played for the Sox in the 60's and 70's indicate that he might have. And if he did, would that be worthy of honor?