Red Sox File Petition With City Of Boston To Change Name Of Yawkey Way
It is named for Tom Yawkey, the team's owner from 1933 until his death in 1976.
The Yawkey Foundation issued a statement Wednesday following an announcement from the Red Sox that the club had filed a formal petition to restore Yawkey Way to its original name, Jersey Street.
The statement concluded by appealing the city's Public Improvement Commission to reject the petition.
The Yawkey Foundation released a statement in response to the petition criticizing the team's decision to rename Yawkey Way, calling the basis for the change "a false narrative".
The Yawkey Foundation, however, has opposed the name change but the Red Sox addressed in their statement that it is not meant as a slight toward the foundation.
The city of Boston renamed a stretch of Yawkey Way David Ortiz Drive last summer in honor of the retired Red Sox designated hitter. During his tenure, the Sox became the last franchise in Major League Baseball to field a black player. They tried out Jackie Robinson in 1945 and scouted Willie Mays in Alabama a couple years later, deeming neither worthy.
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The Red Sox said they have the agreement of businesses which operate on Yawkey Way who say they would not be opposed to a name change. He need only look at the Globe's archives to see that the team under Tom Yawkey sought to acquire and promote black ballplayers throughout the 1950s.
News of the request was reported by the Boston Herald. The positive impact they have had, and continue to have, in hospitals, on education programs, and with underserved communities throughout Boston and New England, is admirable and enduring.
Henry is seeking to take the drastic action of renaming the street that has borne Yawkey's name for more than 40 years without any apparent consideration of these facts.
In more recent years, accusations of racism have haunted the Red Sox fan base.
"But for me, personally, the street name has always been a consistent reminder that it is our job to ensure the Red Sox are not just multi-cultural, but stand for as numerous right things in our community as we can - particularly in our African-American community and in the Dominican community that has embraced us so fully", Henry told The Boston Herald in 2017.
"We are confident that if it does so, it will reject Henry's petition".
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