Torii Hunter has heard hate at Fenway

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Baseball Today: Wednesday, April 23
Published 4/23/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... . (Riverside Press-Enterprise) Some elements of the piece are disturbing, like Torii Hunter and Gary Matthews Jr. telling how they've heard a few racial taunts -- which prompted the Boston Herald to look further into the subject -- but what comes across, mostly, is the passion, positive and negative, the fans have for the Red Sox and for baseball . . . passion so unlike other cities that the players really don't know how to process it. "There are no fans like theirs," said Garret Anderson. And Hunter told the Herald that, in spite of everything, he wanted to join the Red Sox as ...

Boston Herald: Torii Hunter has heard hate at Fenway
Published 4/23/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Boston Herald: Torii Hunter has heard hate at Fenway Though the Red Sox have done a great deal to remake the image of Fenway Park in recent years, visiting players continue to voice concerns about fan conduct. The latest example came from Angels center fielder Torii Hunter. Hunter told the Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif., that until the last couple of years, he regularly heard racist taunts when visiting Fenway as a member of the Minnesota Twins. “I’ve been called whatever they call me - a lot - since I was a kid,” Hunter told the newspaper. “My first five or six ...

Racism At Fenway? Nawww
Published 4/23/2008 by Bronx Liaison at
Bronx Liaison
Torii Hunter tells the Boston Globe of the racial epithets slung at him during games at Fenway Park. The chanting of the n-word was confirmed by Fenway security via David Ortiz. Of course it's less shocking when you consider Fenway has about as diverse a crowd as the Aryan Brotherhood membership: Hunter told the Press-Enterprise of ...