Iconic America | Racism and The Red Sox | Episode 1
- The Red Sox had a line on Willie Mays before anybody else, in 1948, when Mays was 17 years old.
And Willie told me that, as a teenager, he went and told all of his friends that the Red Sox were coming down to look at him, and that he was going to the Major Leagues as a member of the Red Sox.
But I remember speaking with him and him telling me point blank that it was Tom Yawkey that didn't want him, that the Red Sox didn't want him.
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