The best baseball book of 2002 was Boston Herald reporter Howard Bryant's Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston. Even growing up with the Red Sox, until reading the book years ago at the insistence of my non-Red-Sox-fan husband, I was never fully aware of the deep-rooted racial intolerance of the team …
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Menino future should be new chapter
Under normal circumstances, Boston Mayor Tom Menino would be making his annual speech this morning to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. But these are not normal times for Boston's longest serving mayor, and the Chamber merely notes on its website that the breakfast has been postponed. In fact, much of life has been postponed …