Baseball Hall of Fame Disrespect
Will Baseball HOF finally start honoring the game’s native pioneers?
The stated mission of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, in Cooperstown, New York, is “to preserve history, honor excellence and connect generations.” It fails on all three counts where Native American players and history are concerned.
Hall should address real issues
“Forget Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson, put Louis Sockalexis in the Baseball Hall of Fame!” To hear that truly great master of being disingenuous and champion of using “Straw Man” fallacies — using logic fallacies I’ve cautioned my students not to use on their peers in my oral communications classes for a decade — you’d think that is my position and the Penobscot Nation position, according to Bradford Horn, National Baseball Hall of Fame public relations director.
Baseball Hall needs to acknowledge Sockalexis
Probably because of the nature of his brief, meteoric career in Cleveland, Louis Sockalexis remains an enigmatic figure … not only for the Indians Major League Baseball team and its fans, but those concerned with the issue of disrespect for Native Americans in America today.