Bigotry Debases Baseball
(I’m attending a minor-league baseball game. The centerfielder for the local team is a young man with a distinctively Middle Eastern-sounding name. Think something like “Muhammed Shah.”)
Girl Sitting Behind Me: *in tones of strong disapproval* “Muhammed Shah? Where’s he from?”
Boy Sitting Behind Me: *reading from program* “Cincinnati.”
(Mr. Shah, a former all-conference standout, was four for five and despite a sub-par performance by the team’s third base coach, demonstrated some very heads-up base running.)
Question of the Week
Have you ever served a bad customer who got what they deserved?
