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OPENING DAY. All was in place for the first home game of the year as the Fenway Faithful filled the cozy confines of baseball's most beloved ballpark. Red, white and blue bunting fluttered in the wind blowing in from center field. Perrenial vendors emerged from their winter hibernation to hawk peanuts, pretzels and pennants outside the park...
...THAT means the reappearance of one other aspect of the game at Fenway which was glaringly obvious at Monday's home opener: Few Blacks will be in attendance. Mostly white hands will rise up in the rhythmic passes of The Wave around the ballpark...
...typical Red Sox home game, fewer than one percent of the fans are Black. Kenneth M. Richman '90 discovered this fact in researching his senior thesis, "Not Even in the Ballpark: Low Black Baseball Spectatorship and the Sources of Social Segregation...
...usual, conversation at the ballpark focused primarily on whether this "will be THE year...
...first time I got into opening day," Matthews-resident Mike Morell said. "It was nice to see the ballpark and the fans again...