Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston

Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston

2002 • 324 pages

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With a new introduction by celebrated baseball writer Roger Kahn and a new afterword by the author, updating John Henry's first year of ownership after nearly six decades of the Yawkey dynasty, the legacy of the late Will McDonough, and the author's return to his native Boston after a seventeen-year absence, Shut Out has reopened the discussion of baseball, race, and Boston with a new candor.


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