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Title: turning anti-semtism into a children's book
Review: In a recent ESPN article, baseball historian and author Glenn Stout revealed the truth about the so-called "Curse of the Bambino": it is rooted in anti-semitic slander that originated 80 years ago with Henry Ford's racist newspaper, the Dearborn Independent. (Evidently, Ford thought Red Sox owner Henry Frazee was Jewish.) Now that the truth has been exposed -- a truth that evidently escaped Mr. Shaughnessy's reporting of the original "Curse" -- it is sad and disappointing that Mr. Shaughnessy and his publisher have chosen to push all this on children.Then again, perhaps Mr. Shaughnessy will do the right thing and revise his book to acknowledge the anti-semitic roots of the "Curse" he helped popularize. It would be the honorable thing to do, and he should be commended if he chooses that approach.
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