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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...
...course, Blacks make up a much larger proportion of the population than their one percent showing in Fenway. (Boston itself is approximately 23 percent Black) Richman's survey of randomly selected middle school students in the Boston area indicated that Black students were only 53 percent as likely as white students to have attended a Red Sox game during the 1989 season...
...this trend is not limited to Boston and Fenway Park, Even though the Red Sox were the last baseball club to integrate and Boston sports teams have traditionally been dogged by charges of racism, the low attendance by Blacks at baseball games is a nationwide fact--even in urban centers with large Black populations...
...some luck Harvard freshman, tickets to this celebrated event came free courtesy of the Harvard Athletic Department, which doled out 120 tickets to students living in the West Yard as part of its "From Football to Fenway" promotion...