Orioles' Adam Jones told USA Today after the game: “I was called the N-word a handful of times tonight."
It has been 70 years since Jackie Robinson broke through baseball's color barrier and heroically weathered all the torment and abuse that came with being Major League Baseball's first African-American player.
And all these years later — just 16 days after another uplifting anniversary celebration of Robinson's world-changing contribution to baseball — Orioles center fielder Adam Jones is subjected to the same kinds of taunts from the stands at Fenway Park?