I was surprised and disappointed to see Joan Vennochi adopt the sexist “pink hats” reference in her column about marketing the Red Sox (“Selling the Sox,” Op-ed, Feb. 10). The implication is that there are a large number of female fans who hopped on the Sox bandwagon after the 2004 World Series victory only because they wanted to be trendy. This is an insult to the many avid female baseball fans who exist not only in Red Sox Nation, but across America.
My grandmother was an avid Sox fan long before I was first taken to Fenway in 1959. Let Vennochi tell Doris Kearns Goodwin, who was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan before adopting the Red Sox once the Bums fled to Los Angeles, that she is a Sally-come-lately to cheering on the team.
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Bravo, Jim. How this derogatory designation has been allowed to continue and florish for years is beyond me. As an eleven-year-old I was the court-of-last appeal for my father and his friends on any matter relating to baseball. I knew every record held by any player back to the inception of the game, and still know more sports than any of the talk show hosts currently being shuffled around on the radio as well as their print counterparts. Just another side of the sexist coin, I guess.