The trouble began in Milwaukee, after the first ballgame that Mayor Bill de Blasio found time for during a Midwest swing to discuss income inequality — but before the second.
It followed him back home, where tabloids were unsympathetic to the gentle protestations of the mayor, a known Red Sox fan. (“De Blasio: New Yorkers Are Too Mean to Me at Baseball Games,” one headline read.)
And it led him, at last, to a recent gathering in his City Hall office for that rarest of civic treasures: a mayoral correction, if not an apology, concerning middle fingers, New York City baseball fans and whether the latter had truly flashed the former at their elected leader.