Yawkey

Yawkey would rather lose money than tolerate having blacks play for him.

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Gladwell makes much of the example of Tom Yawkey, the long-time and ardently racist owner of the Red Sox.

Jonathan Weiler: Contrary to Gladwell, NBA Owners Do Get to Have Their Cake and Eat It, Too Jonathan Weiler 2011

As the story goes, Yawkey and MacPhail were out the night before and drinking heavily.

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Gladwell contends, reasonably enough, that Yawkey's behavior was irrational from the standpoint of winning -- and making money -- but explicable when one considers whatever psychic benefit Yawkey derived from running his team the way he wanted to.

Jonathan Weiler: Contrary to Gladwell, NBA Owners Do Get to Have Their Cake and Eat It, Too Jonathan Weiler 2011

Gladwell makes much of the example of Tom Yawkey, the long-time and ardently racist owner of the Red Sox.

Jonathan Weiler: Contrary to Gladwell, NBA Owners Do Get to Have Their Cake and Eat It, Too Jonathan Weiler 2011

The idea here is that Valentine won't tolerate similar nonsense in the Red Sox clubhouse, that before Opening Day he's going to walk past the lockers, unplug the glowing chicken vending machine and roll it out onto Yawkey Way for disposal.

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Breslin: "The Red Sox owner, Tom Yawkey, would spend the next twenty years keeping blacks off his teams and he got what he deserved, which was nothing."

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BC scheduled Donahue's news conference it for a large auditorium in the new Yawkey Athletic Center instead of the usual basketball postgame interview room in the basement of the Conte Forum.

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And wonder of wonders, Tom Yawkey wasn't pissing and moaning to have the taxpayers build him a stadium.

The real deal (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

Gladwell makes much of the example of Tom Yawkey, the long-time and ardently racist owner of the Red Sox.

Jonathan Weiler: Contrary to Gladwell, NBA Owners Do Get to Have Their Cake and Eat It, Too Jonathan Weiler 2011